Book description
It's the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the
brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is
discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's
license identifies him as Randall Harris. The last Sheriff Ike Schwartz
heard of Kamarov, he was reported missing, presumed dead, in Russia, the
victim of intelligence game-playing. Ike is not happy with this piece of
his past. Ike's former CIA colleague and friend Charlie Garland asks Ike
to keep a lid on the investigation. Slowly, interagency rivalries
surface as local petty criminals vie with international assassins and
plotters for attention. All the while, Buffalo Mountain looms in the
background. Does the community's violent history have something do with
this recent murder? Or is Kamarov's death part of some greater political
plot? Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He
received his doctorate from the University of Illinois-Westside Medical
Campus. After a stint in the Army, he joined the faculty of the
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, teaching Anatomy, Embryology
and Histology; engaged in research and also served as an Associate Dean.
During this time he also pursued studies in theology and in 1971 was
ordained an Episcopal priest. He is the author of several scientific and
general articles, tracts, theses, and co-author of The Baltimore
Declaration. He is an accomplished public speaker and once hosted a
television spot, Prognosis, on the evening news for WMAR-TV, Baltimore.
He is also an iconographer with works displayed around the world. He
lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan.
