Peace II

This suspense thriller begins in the 1960s when drugs and Vietnam replaced poodle skirts and Memorial Day parades. Khrushchev was removed from office, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the structure of post WWII political power was thrown into turmoil. Were these events a struggle for a new political idealism or the result of an undisclosed international economic scheme gone awry? The novel uncovers a plan secretly condoned by these great men, brought down by its failure, yet so significant in its compulsion toward global peace that it was destined to resurface a half-century later. The hero, John Barton, a well known defense industry leader, is brought onboard to revive the movement along with his childhood sweetheart, Connie Pearson, the daughter of the leading Kennedy Era economist who authored it, and John's best friend and computer guru Fred HardingClose, Robert is the author of 'Peace II', published 2005 under ISBN 9780976152200 and ISBN 0976152207.