Secret Service Journals is a political thriller, a novel the blends fact and fiction into a compelling story about 960s Detroit. The book’s lead character meets compelling characters and learns fantastic stories that shed new light on the historic assassinations of the 1960s.

The book begins with a prologue in 2019, when a young man named Bill Eaton visits his dying grandmother in a Detroit suburb. The elderly woman insists her grandson go to her attic and find an old box full of historic information about a man named Bill Simpson. Simpson is a Secret Service agent that knew his grandmother. The young man sets out on a journey to discover who this Secret Service agent, with a checkered past, was and Simpson’s story begins in Chapter 1.

It is 1962, and Secret Service agent Bill Simpson is beginning a temporary assignment as being part of President Kennedy’s protective detail. The reader follows Simpson through the decade as he faces many highs and lows in his life. He enjoys a great relationship with President Kennedy, yet two years later finds himself in prison. His marriage ends in divorce, but years later he finds new love. After his amazing release from prison, Simpson works in an auto plant and experiences a new life. It is a time of rock and roll, marihuana, Joni Mitchell at Detroit coffee houses, and the 1968 Detroit Tigers. Yet, it is also the time of the Vietnam war, political conflict, and the 1967 Detroit riots or rebellion.

In 1970, the renowned United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther dies in a horrific plane crash in Northern Michigan. UAW leaders are not convinced this was just an accident. Knowing that a former Secret Service agent works in a Ford plant, the union seek his assistance in investigating Reuther’s death. His investigation will lead Simpson on a fascinating journey of learning the facts of the crash and finding out tantalizing information on the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and more. All of which leads up to an exciting conclusion on the streets of Detroit.