The Bodyguard

He's Gay, He Fights, He Wins

It's 1974 in Washington, D.C. A young man with a gymnast body, an angel face and a pit bull temperament uses his family's wealth and political pull to become a Presidential bodyguard with the U.S. Secret Service. He's Skip Walker, he's gay, and he pretends to worry about being discovered.

Soon agents of America's greatest international rivals entice him with world-class gay sexual bait. After entrapping him they threaten to out him if he doesn't spy on the White House.

Except he is also a double agent, working covertly for the CIA.

He finds a magnificent lover, Mack, also a CIA agent, and together they feed the enemy carefully crafted misinformation when a conflict needs to be tipped to a big American win. It's an intensely dangerous and unpredictable game, and inevitably Skip's loyalty is brutally tested when members of his family are captured and threatened.

Reviews

“. . . a grand and sensuous gay saga. It's the story of a man who is determined to maneuver through a prejudiced society while still adhering to his own demanding values. He aims to build a career and a personal family life that he not only feels he deserves but that he is going to get- no matter what.”

Nicholas Fenwood, Seattle Reviews
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“The C.I.A. operation, where gays in government are used as magnets to attract blackmailing spies, is a stunning eye-opener... There is no limit to American ingenuity and craziness?!!”

Felix Abt, Amsterdam Reader
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“There’s more to bite into here than beautiful bodies (although there’s plenty of that). The lead character, Skip, is trying to be conservative and gay at the same time, and this during an era of prejudice. But for starters he has it all...so the struggle is fascinating."

Nat Gold, N.Y., N.Y.
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“With a very appropriate dedication to the gay and lesbian members of the U.S. Armed Forces, the author brings us back to a time when it wasn’t just ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ It was ‘Tell and go to hell.’”

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Retired

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