Unravel a Legacy of Deception in Dead Reckoning -- New Novel Tells a Gripping Tale of a Journalist's Search for the Truth Behind the Assassination of President Kennedy and the Dark Secrets He Uncovers

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• On Monday December 1, 2008, 4:27 am EST

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The year is 1977, and the newly formed House Select Committee on Assassinations is making headlines. Tom Welles, a successful Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, receives an anonymous letter from an individual alleging first hand knowledge of the assassination of President Kennedy, with a time and place to meet. What will Tom discover if he takes the bait? Follow an exciting trail as author Richard Cibrano leads you to Dead Reckoning.

Tom is skeptical of the offer of the anonymous letter, and is prepared to dismiss it as exploitation. However, there is a hook; the letter challenges him to follow the trail of a heretofore-unknown Intelligence organization. Out of his league, Welles reaches out to a colleague with the appropriate contacts in Washington. However, in tapping his sources, he unwittingly draws the attention of a renegade Intelligence group operating within the highest level of government. Abruptly drawn into the epicenter of a legacy of deception, Welles soon learns of a daring CIA penetration operation into the Soviet Union, meets the agent charged with ousting the rogue element from the Agency hierarchy, and encounters the men desperate to keep hidden the Cold War's darkest secret.

Dead Reckoning is a novel about the reckless bravado of the spymasters behind the mazy Intelligence world. Moreover, it dares the reader to consider the antagonisms of United States/Soviet Cold War diplomacy as a mutually beneficial play act between the architects of the military industrial complex on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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About the Author

A graduate of Pace University, Richard Cibrano is a successful businessman living in New York City. Dead Reckoning, his first novel, is the outgrowth of his research of a turbulent period in history that indelibly altered our nation's course.

                  Dead Reckoning * by Richard Cibrano
                  Publication Date: October 29, 2008
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