September 1973: A pro-trades union congressman is shot dead in a California desert town along with a celebrity businessman and a barmaid who went for a break at the wrong time.
The triple homicide happened just hours after the congressman told local newspaper editor Wat Tyler that hed come to town in defiance of a death threat from anti-union workers.
Tyler, a Vietnam combat veteran, teams up with the towns first female chief of detectives. Together, they link the killings to a defence company boss who has gone missing, leaving a huge Pentagon contract and 1,200 jobs in the balance.
At a time when reality often humbled the wildest conspiracy theories, Tyler comes up against a hostile FBI agent, angry mobsters and a cheated casino owner.
His problems mount when a secretive figure he last saw deep in Viet Cong territory arrives in town
David Chadwick is an acclaimed author, historian and award-winning journalist whose work includes Tin Soldiers (the first book in the Nixons America Trilogy), Liberty Bazaar, set in Liverpool during the American Civil War, and High Seas to Home, a historical account of the Battle of the Atlantic. David uses his experiences reporting politics, crime and business to inform his creative work. He divides his time between homes in Greater Manchester, England, and Almeria, Spain.
