Blessed Assassination

by Robert Gammon

Publisher - BookBaby

Category - General Novel

If you thought that the American continent was spared from the terrifying world events of the first half of the 20th century you'd be wrong. In 1933, during one of the most horrific periods in history, with the world in the mire of the Great Depression and sleepwalking towards World War II, John, an investigative journalist from The Washington Post, witnesses the "blessed assassination" of the president of Peru. In the midst of a cruel civil war, international conflicts, hounded by the police and even by his own American embassy, and saving the woman he loves, John risks his life, facing powerful enemies, to uncover a sinister plot with global ramifications that precedes the president's assassination. John survives witnessing a rebellion and the massacre of hundreds of rebels at the president's behest. But how will he survive being embroiled in the subsequent assassination of the president? Who was behind the president's assassination? And, in such turbulent times, what happened after the president's assassination, or what might have happened? If you enjoyed Ken Follet's Century Trilogy or Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa's Fierce Times or Feast of the Goat, you'll enjoy Blessed Assassination. Following considerable research about a country he loves, Robert Gammon's novel reveals historical events leading up to the president's assassination, across the street from where Robert lived in Lima. The novel, based on true events, transports readers to a different world, to another era. The shocking events of the 1930s may seem distant, but today we are once again experiencing similar crises, autocracies, and populism.

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