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Chilling news: a bomb has demolished the car of Picketsville, Virginia's Sheriff Ike Schwartz, creating a crater in the road and shattering windows up and down the town's Main Street. Is this a cop killing -- or domestic terrorism? The report devastates Ike's department; his wife, Ruth, president of the local college; his friends and family; and tickles an alert in the office of Charlie Garland, Ike's former colleague at the CIA whose elastic job description includes monitoring Ike's life. Investigations -- led by more than one player -- fan around and out of Picketsville as far as a small town in Idaho. If some banks and businesses are too big to fail, are some people are too deeply connected, too important, or too wealthy to bring to justice? Martin Pangborn, head of the radical militia called The Fifty-first Star, is such a person: the tentacles of his organization are alarmingly long and deep.



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Frederick Ramsay

Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and received his doctorate in Anatomy from the University of Illinois. After a stint in the Army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine where he taught Gross and Micro Anatomy and Embryology. Collaborated and did independent research in the immunological system and its relation to cancer. He is the author of several scientific research and general technical articles.
During this time he also pursued studies in theology and in 1971 was ordained an Episcopal priest. After leaving the University, he served two congregations in the Baltimore area full time and several part-time.
He is now retired from full-time ministry and writes fiction.
His first novel, Artscape, was published by Poisoned Pen Press and launched July, 2004. His second, Secrets, (Poisoned Pen Press) , was published in August of 2005 and Impulse, July 2006, was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the one hundred best books 2006. He is the author of the Ike Schwartz mysteries, A series beginning with Predators set in Botswana, and a stand alone, religious historical fiction-Judas the Gospel of betrayal.
He is an iconographer, an accomplished public speaker and once hosted a television spot, Prognosis, on WMAR-TV, Baltimore. He currently lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan.



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