By Anon
1980 novel.
What if a foreign power gained control of the US Presidency?
“MI6 agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening.”
“The 1980 novel by Ted Allbeury, called The Twentieth Day of January, is about a Republican populist getting elected president of the United States.
“It turns out that his chief adviser is under the influence of the Kremlin, a connection that is unearthed by a British intelligence officer.
“When confronted with evidence that the Russians have sexually compromising pictures of him, the president-elect takes an overdose, which the CIA passes off as a heart attack.”
“British SIS agent James MacKay is jolted by a press photo of newly elected U.S. President Logan Powell’s press secretary, Andrew Dempsey, recognizing him as a former American student in Paris who was active in the French Communist Party under diamond dealer Viktor Kleppe, a deep-cover KGB agent.
“Suspecting that the KGB is behind Powell’s sudden rise from nowhere to the political bigtime…”
Abraham Lincoln the 16th US president was assassinated.
James A. Garfield the 20th US president was assassinated.
William McKinley the 25th US president was assassinated.
John F. Kennedy the 35th US president was assassinated.
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