President Henry Wallace: And the Sleeping Prophet

The year is 1944. A short distance from the White House, Vice Presidential Aide, Mike Barton is shot in an alley. Two Secret Service Agents witness his assassination after following him from the West Wing. They thought they were on the trail of a White house mole. Instead, with his dying breath Barton claims that Vice President Henry Wallace is a spy. The stakes are raised when Wallace receives eerily accurate information from Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet," that purports to describe the end of the world and a conspiracy against Wallace. Cayce further predicts that Wallace will become the president. The forecast is almost laughable, but within a month FDR dies, thrusting Henry Wallace, the Iowa farmer, into the most powerful office in the world. In a frantic race with his own assassination, President Henry Wallace begins to realize that he is playing a deadly game against a nameless secret society that knows his every move and is powerful enough to turn the newly formed CIA, and possibly even the Navy, against him. Wallace can only save the world from nuclear annihilation if he can unravel Cayce's cryptic prophecies and avoid his own assassination. In a break from the traditional suspense novel, Henry Wallace and the Sleeping Prophet reimagines WWII history culminating with a Commander in Chief bent on avoiding nuclear confrontation at all cost. At the same time lightning paced, highly plausible and meticulously researched, the novel proves to be tough to put down and stunning in its conclusion.