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1 review
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish.com, 2001

The Literary World's Lost Generation
Two brothers, identical twins, forsake the mountains of West Virginia and seek their destinies in New York City. Blair Satterfield, the novelist, encounters early success, though not of the kind he anticipated. Brighton Satterfield, the playwright, meets hard times and finds his career sidetracked by a journey through Hollywood's writers' community where the pay is great but individual rewards ...

If Genes Could Talk: The Story Genes Would Tell If They Could Only Talk (Satterfield Saga)

2 reviews
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish, 2000

Our colonial heritage, the frontier and the Indian wars
Born on the frontier in the isolated foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Satterfield twins, John and James, take different paths to glory. John joins George Washington in the struggle for survival as the English settlers move westward onto Indian lands. James attends William and Mary and becomes a protege of Governor Dinwiddie. As the Governor's clerk, he soon finds himself caught ...

Green Eyes, Red Skies: Pale Ale, White Sails (Satterfield Saga)

1 review
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish.com, 2001

Synopsis
This is the story of an American family in the War of 1812. The Satterfield business empire embroils the family in the political disputes that lead to another war with England. Jason builds a speedy blockade-runner; a British picket ship impresses Toddy and imprisons him in Halifax. Jason and John Jr. pressure a disinterested Jefferson and Madison. Buster's opposition draws him deep into ...

Point of Rocks: Satterfield Saga

1 review
Robert L. Skidmore

Indypublish.Com, 2000

Great historical novel
Fantastic historical details about an energetic and interesting time in early American history.

The Drums, the Fog, the Terrible Shadows of War (Satterfield Saga)

2 reviews
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish.com, 2001

An American Family in the Civil War
Members of a divided Satterfield family fight for opposing causes. Jon, the family's hope for the future, drifts southward. When boyhood friends, the sons of General Robert E. Lee, join their father, Jon enlists as a member of Lee's staff. The Satterfield family patriarch, Scottie, begins the war as Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of War Procurement. As the war progresses, the Satterfields engage ...

Keep A Happy Ghost, Or None
Robert L. Skidmore

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

Confronted by an election campaign for which he has no heart, Sheriff Conor Gifford moves to Richmond where he joins two old friends, Governor Graham Martin and Attorney General Samantha Darrow. On the very day that he assumes command of his new organization, the Office of Special Investigations, an assassin?s bullet kills Martin and Darrow. Shunted aside by the Commander of the State Police who resents the very existence of Gifford?s peculiar ...

Yankee Doodles in Black Hats (Satterfield Saga)

3 reviews
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish.com, 2001

A Virginia Family in the American Revolution
The Satterfield twins, John and James, carry our story through the American Revolution. James conspires with George Mason and George Washington in the days that lead to Washington's selection as Commander in Chief of the rebelling colonial forces. Washington appoints James his political advisor and chief of intelligence. The English capture James during a visit to occupied New York to meet with ...

The Ballbreaker (Satterfield Saga)

1 review
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish, 2001

The American Embassy in Athens Under Seige
Greek tanks roll in the cradle of politics as a defeated Prime Minister struggles to retain power. Amidst the chaos, Roland Satterfield and his beleaguered staff confront Greek and Iranian terrorist teams while a Libyan volunteer spins a complicated plot to capture Carlos the Terrorist. Washington bureaucrats and Congressional hearings distract Rollo's team as they cope with the terrorists who ...

The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel
Robert L Skidmore

iUniverse, Inc., 2003

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Richard Thatcher, the Director of the FBI, and Thatcher dispatches his prot¿¿g¿¿ Barbara Collins to Paris to lead the investigation. Barbara's quest takes her to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula then ...

The Day the Mountain Cried
Robert L. Skidmore

iUniverse, 2004

A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Conor Gifford's peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleases hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason's wrath, a killer strikes five times in six short hours. His victims include a world famous billionaire, a high tech millionaire, a local developer, a simple realtor and the Chairman of the Loudoun County Board ...

Did You Lose Your Elephant (Satterfield Saga)

2 reviews
Robert L. Skidmore

IndyPublish.com, 2001

Cold War and Terrorism
Two distant relatives unwittingly cross paths and violence results. In Asia Japanese terrorists assassinate three senior American intelligence officers. Rollo Satterfield, an inexperienced trainee, discovers a link and is dispatched to Singapore where he identifies the assassins. Unbeknownst to Rollo, the Director dispatches ex-Green Beret Jocko Satterfield on a mission of revenge. A disappointed ...

Circles Within Circles
Robert L Skidmore

iUniverse, Inc., 2005

In this mystery, the second in a series, curiosity about an old flame leads interim Sheriff Conor Gifford to accept an invitation to participate in a Richmond conference which in turn ensnares him in a dubious investigation at the behest of a lame duck governor. Avaricious speculators, ambitious politicians, conniving bureaucrats and a mysterious internal affairs investigator independently contrive self-serving schemes that merge in a maze of ...

Cluster of Spies

1 review
Robert L. Skidmore

Xlibris Corporation, 2001

Cluster of Spies
A ranking defector shakes the National Security establishment to its core when he reveals that Washington's most sensitive secrets routinely pass across the Russian President's desk. Fearing that his own organization has been penetrated, the Director of the FBI summons Inspector Richard Thatcher from his exile posting to Helena, Montana to conduct an off the books investigation. Thatcher's ...

The Hollow Men of Capitol Hill
Robert L. Skidmore

1st Books Library, 2002

BI Deputy Director Richard Thatcher clashes with Senator Judy Gonzales of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That night, Gonzales dies, the first victim of a serial killer whose reign of terror provokes a national crisis.

Did You Lose Your Elephant (Satterfield Saga)

The Gods Are Talking
Robert L Skidmore

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

A terrorist bomb destroys a corporate jet, and a reluctant Conor Gifford, the Chief of the Office of Special Investigations, is thrust into an investigation that takes him to picturesque but bloody Kashmir where he is greeted with disdain and encouraged to withdraw. With a solitary Indian Special Branch shadow as his only companion, Gif stubbornly ignores the advice and warnings of competing Indian and American investigators and eventually ...

The City of Lost Dreams
Robert L Skidmore

AuthorHouse, 2000

After ten years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles Field Office, Inspector Richard Thatcher reluctantly reports to Washington D.C. He arrives the day after a mysterious assailant murders the Chief of Staff to the President. To Thatcher's dismay, he is assigned to command the investigation. An attack on the Mayor of the District of Columbia initially seems unrelated, but eventually it complicates matters. The media ...

The Jealous Mistress With A Hubris Problem
Robert L Skidmore

iUniverse, Inc., 2008

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