KNOLL: The Last JFK Conspiracist

by Stephen Hillard

Overview

“Their list keeps getting shorter. Pray you aren’t on it.”

A young protégé of Edward Snowden flees the NSA after she learns that her project (KNOLL) is designed to detect and destroy any person with new facts about the conspiracy to assassinate JFK. The project’s latest target: a small-town attorney, son of a mysteriously murdered cop, who has just discovered his family’s involvement with deceased Mafia Kingpin Carlos Marcello, and the events that day in Dallas. All paths lead to a small Louisiana town that still hides its secrets, and converge on the doorstep of Marcello’s still-active savant of assassins. He is unstoppable. His creed: Omerta Is Forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590794210
Publisher:	SelectBooks
Publication date:	06/06/2017
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steve Hillard grew up in Bossier City, Louisiana and Grand Junction, Colorado. He graduated from Colorado State University and later earned a degree in philosophy at Columbia University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado. Before settling into his current career as a private equity entrepreneur, Hillard was a teacher at Rikers Island Prison, a welder, a carpenter, and a practicing lawyer. He is the founder and head of Council Tree Communications, a private equity fund involved in the entertainment and telecom industries. He resides with his wife, Sharmaine, in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Publication of his first book in 2011, "Mirkwood: A Novel About JRR Tolkien", started in controversy. The Tolkien Estate sought to ban the book, to which the author responded with a lawsuit in federal court. The dispute received international attention, with articles in the London Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Christian Science Monitor. The case quickly settled and the book went on to become an Amazon Fantasy Best Seller, recipient of a national IPPY Award, and was published world-wide in Spanish by an imprint of Planeta. An epic spin-out of the book's main fantasy character, Ara, is the subject of an eight-volume series co-authored with Joel Eisenberg. The first volume, "Creation: The Chronicles of Ara", was released by Topos books of Incorgnito Publishing in 2015. A companion series, "The Lost Chronicles of Ara", is written by the same duo and is slated for release starting in 2015. These series are now under development as a TV series by The Ovation Network. Mr. Hillard's other writing projects include a forthcoming thriller about JFK.

Editorial Reviews

05/15/2017
The intriguingly offbeat idea that Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay for the 1973 film Executive Action was censored to hide the truth about President Kennedy’s assassination underpins this so-so conspiracy thriller from Hillard (The Lost Chronicles of Ara with Joel Eisenberg). In 2014, Texas Representative Gary Ochray of the House Intelligence Committee vows to use his powers to identify who was behind the assassination. Two years later, Colorado prosecutor Columbus “Bus” McIntyre learns that his father, a cop killed in the line of duty in 1970, may have been involved. Just after a scandal derails Bus’s bid to become DA, an old high school football buddy, now a police detective, hands him an old manila folder containing a journal kept by Bus’s late father. One entry reads: “For what I did in Dallas, they will find me.” There’s also a reference to mafioso Carlos Marcello, a name Bus recognizes from “the lineup of JFK assassination suspects.” In the next chapter, the two-decades-dead Marcello (or his ghost) talks with a former triggerman in a scene that does nothing to enhance the suspension of disbelief needed to engage with the less than compelling story line. (June)

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