Sunday Salon - The First Patient by Michael Palmer

Being around the President would be scary enough without having to be his doctor also!

Gabe Singleton, a rancher, a doctor, a long-time friend of Andrew Stoddard, President of the United States, has been living in Wyoming for the last few years.

Oh yes, Gabe has a criminal record. His involvement in an auto accident while being intoxicated kills a pregnant woman. This accident happens while he and buddy, Drew are at Annapolis and Gabe serves a year in prison.

Several helicopters land on Gabe's property and President Stoddard asks his friend to be his doctor.

Not really following his heart, Gabe reluctantly agrees to go to Washington even after finding that the President's former physician has disappeared. After only a couple of bedside visits, Gabe is called to the Presidential bedroom and sees him acting very strangely.

Is the President insane? Gabe wonder what he has got himself into. Leaving the White House, Gabe is attacked by a gunman in his car. Allison, a Secret Service agent undercover as a nurse bumps into the rear of his car and the bullet only shatters his side rear window.

What follows is Gabe trying to find both who is out to kill him and what is really wrong with the President.

Facing reelection Drew cannot afford to let the public know about his illness, but Gabe must face his conscience and call the Twenty-fifth Amendment if this mystery illness is nit solved.

A world crisis is hanging in the balance... what will Gabe do?

A fantastic, suspense-filled novel with a great end!