No. 21567 Douglas MacKinnon and some of his books.
Douglas MacKinnon’s works include:
First Victim. (1997)
Vengeance is Mine. (2010)
Rolling Pennies in the Dark. (2012)
The North Pole Project. (2017)
The Dawn of a Nazi Moon: Book One. (2020)
Douglas MacKinnon served in the White House as a writer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and afterwards in a joint command at the Pentagon, where he had a top secret government clearance. He is a regular contributor to several major newspapers. To date, he has published more than 600 columns in every major paper in the country—including Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Examiner—and makes frequent appearances on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. He is the author of a memoir, Rolling Pennies in the Dark.
First Victim explores the issue of spousal abuse through fiction.
Beautiful, likable Sabrina Ryan seems an ideal First Lady when her husband, Turner, the Governor of California, wins the race for President. But Sabrina is the longtime victim of her husband’s rages. Though she is artful at hiding her bruises, Turner soon considers her expendable and plots to get her out of his life. His loathsome behavior is echoed by other government personnel, even as danger is rising from an assassin’s plot.
Vengeance is Mine
Twenty years after ex-CIA special ops agent Ian Wallace watched a KGB colonel brutally murder the love of his life and their unborn child, he’s still wishing the monster Vladimir Ivanchenko had killed him off, too. Endlessly haunted by nightmarish memories of torture, Wallace, the fanatically conservative private investigator, can’t seem to escape the bowels of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, even while reaping the comforts of life in suburban Boston.
Rolling Pennies in the Dark
Douglas McKinnon, a son of Dorchester, begins his memoir as a riveting, rat-a-tat account of a childhood punctuated by near-daily narrow escapes from the undertow drag of his reckless parents, whose taste for drink and excess in 1960s Boston was surpassed only by their ambivalence about their own kids’ survival.
It ends as an anti-poverty manifesto from a self-described “independent conservative” who served as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House and communications chief to Senator Bob Dole, but who has grown disillusioned by each major party’s election season lip-service to poor people.
North Pole Project
Christian Nicholas’s life has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. You’d think a fifty-four-year-old multibillionaire would be happy—but he’s not. As Christian contemplates the worst, his older brother Paul, a minister in Texas, reminds him of the one and only time in Christian’s life when he was truly happy. That time was when, as a small boy, he saved every penny all year to buy and deliver Christmas presents for needy children on the army base he lived on with his military parents. His brother implores Christian to “become like Santa Claus all over again.”
The Dawn of a Nazi Moon: Book One
The novel, which opens in the closing days of World War II, and then takes place in 2029, is based upon recently revealed information alleged to have been offered up by a then General from the Soviet Union who insisted that: As Russian troops closed in on Nazi Germany’s Top Secret Peenemunde Rocket base, one of the Russian Army’s forward observer teams reported seeing the flames of several large rockets — “multiple sizes larger than the V-2” — lift off from the base in the darkness and rain of that evening. Rockets which, to the best of the General’s knowledge, “never came back down anywhere on earth.”