Passing along another free-to-download offer of my first novel, THE JACKET. The offer runs on Kindle through Wednesday.
Now for the promotional stuff:
Praise for THE JACKET from Nancy Allen, #1 New York Times bestselling author:
“Deftly plotted and skillfully written, this timely political thriller pits a working class heroine from Appalachia against a cast of crafty villains. The book takes us on a relentless chase in and around DC to snag possession of the ultimate prize: the jacket.”
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"Fans of John Grisham and Stieg Larsson will greatly enjoy The Jacket: Where Secrets Go To Die, a fast-paced Deep State thriller by Jim Chiles that features an engaging cast of characters and an intricate plot."
The author of THE JACKET is James R. Chiles, author of Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology (HarperCollins) and The God Machine: from Boomerangs to Black Hawks, The Story of the Helicopter (BantamDell). He has appeared on Coast to Coast AM, All Things Considered, CBS-TV, NHK of Japan, Australian Broadcasting, the National Geographic Channel, and the History Channel.
Summary: Bodine, a young woman from the Appalachians, has a job delivering dry cleaning to DC's upper crust when a scheme by her boss at the cleaners, Harry Landes, goes off-track and pulls her into high-stakes danger.
Using highly advanced and undetectable listening gear stolen from the CIA, codenamed PICKET, Landes has been harvesting Washington secrets from DC's ultra-secure locations. He sells the info to a set of uber-wealthy plotters he's dubbed the Three Scrooges.
Seduced by their status, Landes recently helped the trio kill and discredit a political idealist, Jeremy Coghill. They set Coghill up as having bombed a conservative PAC fundraiser at a DC watering hole. Police draw the obvious conclusion, that Coghill accidentally set off his own bomb from an adjacent room, prematurely, killing only himself and a bunch of young interns, as the VIP crowd had not yet arrived. The scheme seems certain to destroy Coghill's anti-lobbyist movement. But Landes is horrified to learn that the plot happened to ensnare one of the clothing-embedded Picket sets: a love-struck Senator Fowler had barged into the wreckage to throw his suit jacket over the body of his latest obsession, an underage Senate page.
Fearing what a forensic crew might find, Landes orders Bodine to receive the Picket-equipped jacket from a paid-off firefighter at the bomb scene. He orders her to drive it to a safe place in West Virginia. On the way Bodine loses it to ambitious Black podcaster Y’rone Gooden. Heedless of collateral death and damage, Landes is determined to recover the jacket before its billion-dollar secret gets loose. Entering the fray is iconoclastic analyst Maggie Campolong. Her job at the Defense Intelligence Agency is to guard the security of SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) vaults.
All forces will converge on the mountain town of Nimrod, West Virginia.
