{"product_id":"the-professor-and-the-spies-9781636615776","title":"The Professor and the Spies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Professor and the Spies: A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy: O.T. Harris With Carl Kremer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Hampton Weatherly became a professor of English history at Westminster, retiring in 1995. He began research for a book on the security measures for that event, which led to a meeting with a Scottish agent of MI5, Clive St. John. They become friends, and Weatherly finds himself in Scotland seeking data on St. John's father, a decorated naval officer who spied on German and Russian activity in the Orkney Islands during WWII.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plot bounces from Fulton to Washington, DC, to Scotland and Crimea, with an array of well-drawn characters: bureaucrats, naval admirals, a Scottish provost and his doughty chauffeur, a whiskey salesman, and members of MI5, the FBI, the CIA, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and the Fulton Police Department. Featuring a thwarted assassination attempt, a largely unnoticed homicide, a kidnapping, a daring rescue involving spies and secret agents, Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and others-and drinking, romance, intrigue and dark secrets, \u003cem\u003eThe Professor and the Spies\u003c\/em\u003e is sure to capture the undivided attention of any reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO.T. Harris and his brainchild, Professor Hampton Weatherly, were freshmen at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, when Winston Churchill made his \"Iron Curtain\" speech there in 1946. When he retired from a career in banking, Harris indulged himself in writing, which had been a life-long pastime. In his eighties, he began his most challenging work, this novel, encouraged and coached by his friend, Carl Kremer, a retired English professor: BA, MA, MFA (in fiction writing), and PhD in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO.T. Harris died, his novel unfinished, and Kremer, who had published some essays and short stories and written a half-dozen unpublished novels, undertook the task of finishing and polishing the novel-a three-year challenge and labor of love and frustration as he struggled to realize Harris's-and his own-dream of being a novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosedog Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636615776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"O. T. Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40994638135477,"sku":"9781636615776","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5c76b0d4-1636-4389-a258-a716a0729ea7.jpg?v=1631627266","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-professor-and-the-spies-9781636615776","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}