The Tsar’s Puppet
The Tsar’s Puppet, a novel by Jerry Anderson, Published by Jerry Anderson Ink, LLC.
Author
Introduction
Project Red Dragon: a daring coup attempt to destroy democracy in America, dissolve Congress, and install the recently defeated president…
Chapter One
On a misty rainy night in the nation’s capital, the man looks in the car’s rearview mirror and feels a moment of panic…
Chapter Two
The story is all over the morning news. Rosario Brown—White House reporter feels a genuine moment of panic and knows she is in serious trouble…
Chapter Three
The president relaxes in the Oval Office and admires pictures of past presidents. He wants to appreciate the tradition that surrounds him, but the truth is…
Chapter Four
When Billy turns the starter switches, the two big motors of the Delta Queen fire right up. The Queen’s old and kind of crusty…
Chapter Five
It is 10:00 AM Moscow time. The president of Russia is at his desk in his Kremlin office when the red light on his phone starts to blink…
Chapter Six
Rosie goes directly to her cabin to lie down. Billy follows her. Before I leave, there’s something I have to show you…
Chapter Seven
Billy takes Rosie to the shooting range where he is a member and a regular. The sign at the entrance of the road leading in reads…
Chapter Eight
Billy and Rosie leave the restaurant. Rosie takes Billy’s hand and they start the five-block walk to The Funky Pirate…
Chapter Nine
Elena believed in democracy and civil liberties, and it bothered her being cynically used by the Russian state authorities to disrupt Western democracies…
Chapter Ten
Billie and Rosie return to The Funky Pirate in the French Quarter to meet with Little Willie. First, though, they stop at Coop’s Place…
Chapter Eleven
Billy is not sure yet just how long he might be gone. But Shane McGregor, CIA director of counterintelligence, wants him to come to Washington…
Chapter Twelve
Because of the attempt on Rosie’s life, it is decided at dinner that Billy will go alone to Washington…
Chapter Thirteen
Billy levels the CJ3 off. He loves flying the little corporate-style jet, sleek and fast and responsive to the lightest touch…
Chapter Fourteen
The president of the United States is at his New Jersey golf estate, and he is pissed-off…
Chapter Fifteen
When he’s out on the campaign trail, The Bad King basks, luxuriates in the warmth and adulation of the crowds…
Chapter Sixteen
Tsar Peter is in his quarters in the Kremlin Palace. Earlier in the evening he had been with his favorite mistress…
Chapter Seventeen
It was almost like something out of a spy movie. I went back to the machine shed where the Russians were running their smuggling operation…
Chapter Eighteen
The Bad King, the erstwhile real estate developer, was on the financial ropes and persona non grata with the bankers on Wall Street…
Chapter Nineteen
It has been little more than a year since The Bad King declared a national emergency to get money to build his wall on the Southern border…
Chapter Twenty
Thirty minutes later Rosie and Billy are checking in at the front desk in the lobby of the elegant Hay Adams Hotel…
Chapter Twenty-One
The Bad King has been ballyhooing the finding of his wholly partisan DOJ consigliere…
Chapter Twenty-Two
Billy and Rosie wait in the bar for Shane McGregor, the counterintelligence director in the Russia House…
Chapter Twenty-Three
The cover-up continues with the eagerly anticipated report on Russian meddling into the 2016 election…
Chapter Twenty-Four
Rosie is up early to go to her job at the White House. She has a lot on her mind this morning…
Chapter Twenty-Five
Billy and Rosie take a cab back to the Hoover building in downtown DC, not far from the White House…
Chapter Twenty-Six
Counterterrorism Director Shane McGregor settles into bed when the ringer on his cell phone suddenly goes off…
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Everyday The Bad King breaks with established norms, ignores long-held democratic traditions, and violates the constitution and the laws of the land…
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Belle is backstage preparing for her Philadelphia concert, packed with more than 25,000 of her adoring fans…
Chapter Twenty-Nine
In a jam-packed hall The Bad King again has the crowd whipped into a frothy lather…
Chapter Thirty
CIA counterintelligence and counterterrorism director Shane McGregor waits in his long black limousine outside FBI headquarters for a meeting…
Chapter Thirty-Two
The president is now back in Orlando where in 2019 he officially launched his 2020 campaign…
Chapter Thirty-Three
Belle’s meeting with her manager Robby Mock does not quite go the way she expected.
Chapter Thirty-Five
The Bad King, the incumbent president of the United States, is still under siege by the Democrats…
Chapter Thirty-Six
The Bad King nominates a federal appeals court judge and right-wing favorite to replace the retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy…
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Robby Mock is waiting impatiently in a Bronx bar to meet with a man about providing information…
