[The Presidential Series 02] • The Kennedy Endeavor

Book 2 of the Nationally Bestselling Presidential Series by Bob Mayer.

No one looks for something that isn’t supposed to exist.

For 13 days in October 1962 the world came the closest to nuclear Armageddon. On 22 November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated. On the 25th of November, as Kennedy’s body lay in state at the Rotunda in Washington, Anastas Mikyoan, Khrushchev’s top adviser, presented the Premier’s condolences to Jacqueline Kennedy. She took Mikoyan’s hand in both hers and told him: “I am sure that Chairman Khrushchev and my husband could have been successful in the search for peace, and they were really striving for that. Now you must continue this endeavor and bring it to completion.”

On 12 October 1964, a Washington socialite named Mary Meyer was shot in the back of the head and through the heart at point-blank range. She had been married to a high-ranking CIA agent. More importantly, she had been carrying on an affair with President John F. Kennedy and was one of his most trusted friends, at his side through the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mary Meyer kept a secret diary.

On 13 October 1964, the day after Mary Meyer’s murder, the Soviet Politburo forced Nikita Khrushchev to resign from power and put him under house arrest.

What was in Mary Meyer’s diary that caused her murder and Khrushchev’s resignation?

Paul Ducharme learns that someone is searching APS Archives for information about Kennedy and Khrushchev, looking for details of a secret deal made between the two after the missile crisis that has significant repercussions to this day—that in fact, could spell nuclear destruction for the United States.

To find out what those two world leaders did, Ducharme must unravel the mystery of Kennedy’s assassination, the murky history of the CIA, and what role the Society of the Cincinnati played in all of those. And, most chilling of all, what role his own American Philosophical Society played.