Cincinnatus: The Secret Plot to Save America

Washed-up golfer Matt Thurman dreams of returning to the PGA circuit. Instead, he finds himself framed for murder. Espy Harper, a Department of Justice attorney, wants to solve a mystery involving fixed golf tournaments. Instead, she uncovers a draconian plot with world-changing consequences. Together they race to find answers before it's too late -- for them and for the country. Their quest leads them deep into America's past, to a brotherhood of direct descendants of the Continental Army. Cincinnatus weaves a riveting dramatic tale full of intrigue, murder, and lost love that will leave readers breathless.

About the Author :
Rusty McClure, is the New York Times bestselling author of Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed The Nation. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University and a Harvard MBA. He teaches an entrepreneurial course at his undergraduate alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University. David Stern, author of over two dozen titles including the New York Times bestselling novelization Blair Witch Project: A Dossier and Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation. He has worked on a wide range of titles during his twenty-year career in the publishing industry. He has edited numerous national bestsellers and worked with many award-winning authors. He lives with his wife and children in Massachusetts.

Review :
Mariemont native Rusty McClure points to the blue-and-white striped flag with aneagle blowing in the wind on the Fountain Square flagpole. "Nobody knows it's there. They never taught us about it," says McClure, a 1968Mariemont High School graduate. Anyone who reads McClure's new book will know a lot more about the flag of theWashington-based Society of the Cincinnati, founded in 1783 by Continental Armyveterans. McClure's "National Treasure"-like novel, "Cincinnatus: The Secret Plotto Save America" (Ternary Publishing; $24) is out now. McClure is also the author of the 2006 "Crosley," a book about his grandfather andgreat-uncle, Lewis and Powel Crosley Jr. He set much of his new thriller here. In the book, assistant U.S. district attorney Esperanza Harper traces millions wonon fixed golf tournaments to the little-known Society of Cincinnati, the nation'soldest patriotic organization. With help from her father, an anti-terrorism expert in the Los Angeles FBI office, she uncovers a right-wing conspiracy of international consequences that takes sheand her father to South Florida and the private Bahamas island of Cat Cay. And all over Cincinnati. Fountain Square, One Lytle Place, Union Terminal, CampWashington Chili, Montgomery Inn Boathouse and the Sawyer Point statue ofRoman general Cincinnatus also figure into the story. So do the Crosley brothers, the radio makers and WLW-AM owners, whose love ofelectronics plays a plausible role in the fiction. Powel Crosley Jr. also built the TwinBeaches mansion on Cat Cay, which figures in the book. "I tell people about the Society of Cincinnati and Cat Cay. It's really cool stuff thatnobody in Washington or Cincinnati knows about. And I didn't make them up," saysMcClure, who has a Harvard MBA and a divinity degree from Emory University. For most of his adult life, McClure has lived in the Columbus suburb of Dublin. He'san investor in a dozen companies and teaches an entrepreneurial course at OhioWesleyan University. McClure also