A Year After Kennedy Was Killed, His Mistress Was Murdered. The Next Day, Khrushchev Resigned.
I love writing fiction that finds amazing fact and “coincidences” of history and weaves them together into a thriller. These are facts:
On the 25th of November, as Kennedy’s body lay in state at the Rotunda in Washington, Anastas Mikyoan, Khrushchev’s top adviser, presented the Premier’s condolences to Jacqueline Kennedy. She took Mikoyan’s hand in both hers and told him: “I am sure that Chairman Khrushchev and my husband could have been successful in the search for peace, and they were really striving for that. Now the Chairman must continue the agreed upon endeavor and bring it to completion.”
What was that endeavor?
On 12 October 1964, a Washington socialite named Mary Meyer was shot in the back of the head and through the heart at point-blank range. She had been married to a high-ranking CIA agent. More importantly, she had been carrying on an affair with President John F. Kennedy and was one of his most trusted friends, at his side through the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On 13 October 1964, the day after Mary Meyer’s murder, the Soviet Politburo forced Nikita Khrushchev to resign from power and put him under house arrest.
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear Sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” John F. Kennedy
Today, Paul Ducharme and Evie Tolliver unveil a Fail-Safe type scenario brokered by President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev, lost to history, and race against time before the archaic Sword of Damocles initiates World War III.
For a thriller steeped in history, enjoy The Kennedy Endeavor, part of the Presidential Series.
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