Senator Alison Bowman has a chance to become the first female president, until a tape exposing a long-ago affair surfaces, and Washington lawyer Steve Bentley agrees to help, but when the blackmailer is killed he realizes he has gotten in over his head. Reprint.
E. Howard Hunt was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the Nixon White House "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks." Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the first Watergate burglary, and other undercover operations for Nixon. In the ensuing Watergate Scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.