What We're Reading: Edward

Capitol Betrayal: a novel


by William Bernhardt



This is the 18th and final Ben Kincaid novel according to the author. This novel is both a thriller and a courtroom drama. Ben is in the Oval Office with the President. Suddenly everyone in the room is escorted to the bunker beneath the White House. The United States is under attack by a Middle Eastern dictator. He threatens the country with our own ballistic missiles. The President is acting strangely and the Vice-President seeks his removal from office. Ben sets up a trial on the question of whether the President is fit for office. In less than two hours, before the next missile attack, Ben must prove the President fit and find the traitor in the room. Meanwhile outside the White House, a CIA operative, Seamus McKay, is chasing terrorists who have stolen a nuclear suitcase bomb. The terrorists are working for the Middle Eastern dictator. Both Ben and Seamus must be successful to save the United States.