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Bully!
President Teddy Roosevelt and a buddy from his cowboy and Rough Rider days investigate a shocking conspiracy that could alter the course of history
196 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
About the author
Mark Schorr
14 books7 followersMark Schorr is the author of 11 previous published mysteries/thrillers. He was nominated for an Edgar award, had books published in France, Spain and Japan, and had three books optioned by Hollywood. He’s also the author of hundreds of articles, with work published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, and The Oregonian. He’s been on staff for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, USA Today, CBS and NBC.
Aside from his work as a writer, he’s been a bookstore manager, a bouncer at Studio 54, a private investigator, an international courier, a crisis de-escalation trainer, and a decoy during training for TSA’s bomb-sniffing dogs.
He is currently a mental health and addictions counselor in Portland, Oregon.
Aside from his work as a writer, he’s been a bookstore manager, a bouncer at Studio 54, a private investigator, an international courier, a crisis de-escalation trainer, and a decoy during training for TSA’s bomb-sniffing dogs.
He is currently a mental health and addictions counselor in Portland, Oregon.
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July 28, 2018
The two Alice Roosevelt mysteries by R.J. Koreto, ALICE AND THE ASSASIN, and THE BODY IN THE BALLROOM which I enjoyed reading, prompted me to dig out and reread this novel from 1985. Like the Koreto books the narrator is an former Rough Rider, James White, but in this adventure it is Alice's father, Theodore Roosevelt who takes center stage as he becomes ensnared in a trap set by some of the country's most powerful industrialists in order to discredit his administration. Unable to go to the authorities, TR must team up with White as he leaves the security of the White House to conduct clandestine meetings in the New York underworld, the teeming slums, and the bastions of powerful corporations in order to protect the country and himself from the astounding and far reaching plot.
The book moves along at a good pace and draws the reader in with the action, and there are even cameo appearances by actual historical personages including Alice Roosevelt, although the author does make some slight historical errors such as mentioning her fully clothed plunge into a swimming pool which in fact occurred in 1905, not 1903, the year in which the book is set, and implying that she slipped into bed with White one night as he slept, (He awakes to find the scent of her perfume on his pillow as well as some hairpins). While this may make for a little tittilation, it would never have happened considering that TR and his wife in fact kept an hawk like eye on the rambunctious first daughter to make sure she didn't do anything to bring scandal upon the family, even recruiting Alice's maid to spy in her diaries. Still the book makes for an engaging adventure which anyone who has read the Koreto books should enjoy.
(This review is of a first printing of the book from 1985. It may be out of print.)
The book moves along at a good pace and draws the reader in with the action, and there are even cameo appearances by actual historical personages including Alice Roosevelt, although the author does make some slight historical errors such as mentioning her fully clothed plunge into a swimming pool which in fact occurred in 1905, not 1903, the year in which the book is set, and implying that she slipped into bed with White one night as he slept, (He awakes to find the scent of her perfume on his pillow as well as some hairpins). While this may make for a little tittilation, it would never have happened considering that TR and his wife in fact kept an hawk like eye on the rambunctious first daughter to make sure she didn't do anything to bring scandal upon the family, even recruiting Alice's maid to spy in her diaries. Still the book makes for an engaging adventure which anyone who has read the Koreto books should enjoy.
(This review is of a first printing of the book from 1985. It may be out of print.)
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