White King and the Doctor: a novel based on actual events - Paperback

by Lee Kessler (Author)

"White King and the Doctor" will challenge you to think; it will cause you to look at things you've never examined; and it will change how you view the world around you forever. Based on actual events, it is a suspense novel about the War on Terror, through the eyes of Ayman Al-Zawahiri--the mastermind and second-in-command of Al Qaeda. Zawahiri is playing a diabolical and brilliant game of mind control, using public relations as it has never been used before. His complex game has military, sociological, economic and political consequences. Two men are pitted against him in a desperate race to know what his next move will be and to locate where he is. One is james Mikolas, a CIA analyst who advances an outragious theory, and the other is Andrew Weir, an 18-year-old Grandmaster chess champion who proves it. The actual events of our current history are tied together with a back-story that paints a suspenseful and provocative picture of a never-before-played game.

Author Biography

Lee Kessler is a television actress, screenwriter, playwright, and stage director. Her career in Hollywood and New York spans thirty-five years, and includes dozens of guest starring roles in episodic TV, mini-series and movies-of-the-week. She had reoccurring roles in the series "Hill Street Blues" and "Matlock," and was submitted for Emmy nomination twice for her starring roles in the movie "Collision Course," and the ABC special, "Which Mother Is Mine?" She co-starred with Peter O'Toole in the film "Creator." Lee became the first actress in the world authorized to portray the legendary diarist Anais Nin when her play, "Anais Nin-the Paris Years," was produced in New York and Los Angeles, with a subsequent tour on the West Coast. She also directed the West Coast premiere of A.R. Gurney's "Who Killed Richard Cory?" Since the publication of her suspense novel entitled White King and the Doctor, Lee has made numerous radio and TV appearances discussing the book's relevance to the outcome of the War on Terror, and has spoken often at book signings and private readings in New York and Los Angeles. In addition, during the development of her entertainment industry career, Lee became a successful entrepreneur, a pioneer in Internet commerce, and today owns an international Internet business which operates throughout the United States. She currently resides in Montana.