by Brett F. Woods

Former Secret Service agent Brett Woods takes an impressive turn to fiction with this taut novel of real world “black ops” and the shadowy world of U.S. government counterespionage work. Sal Franco, a senior inspector in the FBI’s Special Intelligence Section, is assigned to investigate the assassination of a handful of obscure, elderly Department of Defense scientists. Unbeknownst to Franco, the assassin, Damon Cory, is a full colonel in the United States Army working under the direction of a man named Eisler, an aging intellectual of ambassador rank who, at the behest of the president, administers a classified operation known as Queenwalk. As the deadly cat-and-mouse game unfolds, the reader follows Cory through the intellectual, emotional and procedural side of assassination, and Franco through the psychological evaluations, autopsy examinations and forensic findings of a major federal murder case. When their paths finally converge, the enigma of Eisler is unraveled and, with it, the secret of Autley House is laid bare. Autley House is a classic espionage page-turner. 

Brett F. Woods is the author of numerous articles and books in the areas of military history, police science and government financial operations. A Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, he has held a number of law enforcement and regulatory positions, including Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service; Inspector General, New Mexico Human Services Department; and Commissioner for Law Enforcement, New Mexico Gaming Control Board. His professional affiliations have included the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Narcotics Officers Association and the Association of the United States Army.

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