Snapshot

A fast paced action adventure novel. It is written for all age groups and seems to especially appeal to the twenty and older readers. It would be well received by readers who enjoy continuous action with a well-developed plot. Tom Connor, a tough, intelligent student of engineering, visits the Montana lodge that will shortly host the controversial President of the United States. Tom takes a walk one evening with Katherine Lancaster, a beautiful girl visiting the park with her scientist uncle, Stamford Zimmerlee, and Zimmerlee's mysterious associate, Villerot. This excursion ends in surprise and plunges Tom into a whirlwind of tension, danger, and murderous attacks, culminating in a plummet down a mountain road on a runaway tour bus, and Katherine's disappearance. Scrambling to uncover the secret behind these assaults Tom discovers a strange new weapon and its role in a plot by Villerot to assassinate the President. He reports his suspicions to the authorities, but they find no evidence and disbelieve his story. Continuing to pry on his own Tom runs foul of the law and is pursued by the forces of good and evil alike through the town of East Glacier, into the wilderness beyond. Captured first by the authorities and then by the enemy, Tom escapes both. He finds and rescues Katherine, kidnapped previously by Villerot. Then, with time running out, near exhaustion, forced to choose between fleeing to preserve his life, and risking it for the greater good, Tom returns to face the weapon and its wielder in a desperate battle. Tom stops the assassination and, after a fierce struggle, knocks Villerot from a high balcony to his death below. The authorities investigate the fallen man's weapon, and believe Tom's story at last.