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Media Kit: Basic information covering Author Tim Arnold & his latest book “Deceptive Truth” and his first book “Scent of Danger” If you have additional questions please do not hesitate to leave a comment below or drop Tim a note via clicking  “Contact” in the top menu.

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Short Bio

Tim Arnold found the joy of reading after college and well into his professional career. A graduate from the University of Washington in Electrical Engineering, the only books he read were technical and managerial books to maintain his professional abilities and his leadership skills. He worked for the local utility holding multiple management positions including General Manager.

Long Bio

Tim Arnold found the passion for writing later in life. A nonreader, he discovered the pleasure of reading and then wanted to tell stories. His long and very difficult path led to several novels all with different characters. His present day stories take you to suspense-filled locations where his protagonists must deal with the issues that affect everyone. From the president to a doctor to lovers, each story comes alive as the characters find ways to heal, help, and defend those around them. Tim’s books are easy to read, but difficult to put down.

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Deceptive Truth Short Synopsis

Andrew Davidson is President of the United States, the last thing he wanted or planned. Now he must reveal his secret past to save the future of America and the rest of the world. The circle of those he can trust is very small and there are many who want him to fail. Only one person has the skill to prevent the loss of millions of lives; he must entrust the fate of the world to someone he’s never met…and wait.

Deceptive Truth Long Synopsis

Andrew Davidson goes from college track decathlon competitor to president of the United States, something he didn’t ask for or pursue. How he got here and the secrets he has hidden from everyone now come into full view. His country and the world are on the brink of war, and parts of his past may help save millions of lives. Only a few know the truth about what he did, and some want to use that knowledge for financial and personal gain.

A dark society within the shadows has plans that don’t include Andrew. The power plays triggered by this group encompass the world and include a major conflict that this new president may be unable to prevent. They have the resources and people in all the right places, including the director of the CIA. Andrew must discover the very few around him he can trust. His links to the past both help and hinder. Each person has an agenda in conflict with the others. What Andrew’s army squad witnessed in Cambodia a long time ago now comes back to haunt the world.

One person Andrew has never met holds the key to his plan. Chuck Hayes has unknowingly been helping this small group of powerful people navigate the labyrinth of military data and computers for years. Now Andrew must entrust Chuck save the world while Andrew’s handpicked team tries to put all the other pieces in place before the US Pacific Naval fleet is eliminated. Chuck wants to do the right thing. He had trusted others to tell him the truth, but he’d been deceived. Now he must make the necessary corrections to save the lives of many. A tight security team protects Chuck as he’s hurried around the globe in the dark of night, hidden from everyone. With alarms screeching loudly inside the control room, Chuck must calmly take control while everyone else watches and waits. The countdown has begun.

Deceptive Truth Prologue

Andrew brushed back his graying hair. Each day brought new creases to his once smooth face. Tonight would bring more as had the last few days. The fatigues were new, but the name patch was old, one of the five things he’d kept secret from everyone including his wife. Three of the items were on the night table. It was time to give two of them to Jason, the man right outside the door. One was an old American flag used to cover Jason’s father’s casket, and the other was the Medal of Honor earned by his father for saving Andrew’s life a long time ago. The last items, two gold bars, he’d wear for the first time tonight in honor of those who had died. And tonight the true story of his past would be told. There were no other insignias or rank, just like what he had worn years ago in a land far away. Heather had listened as she heard the truth about his war experience. They had hugged but neither could hide the tears the truth had brought. She had forgiven him and was now on her way to tell the children who were both in college. The orchestrated story would begin to leak out over a period of days. He was now somewhere he never thought he would be, and must tell the rest of the world what he had done. The black armband for his fellow squad members was tied on his right sleeve. How would his children take the news? He had lived one big lie his whole married life, but the power of their relationship had given him renewed strength to do the tasks that had seemed impossible just days before.

How would the secret service men feel about him? Everyone would know tomorrow, but tonight he would tell the whole story to just one man. Outside of the few who already knew, his number one security guard would be next. He would tell Jason the truth about his father who had died during the Viet Nam war, but not in the way his mother had been told. Others said they would tell him, but it was a job for someone who had been there, something Jason’s father had asked with his last breath. He had died so Andrew could live, and now Jason was in the same position, being asked by his government to die if necessary, so that Andrew could live. Andrew wasn’t sure how he was going to tell him. Maybe he should have Jason assigned to a different job and not ask him to take such a responsibility.

Andrew had a few minutes right now and there would never be a better time. He stood, walked over to the door and rested his hand against it. When he opened the door he saw Jason sitting at his usual post right outside.  Jason stood immediately. “Jason, get someone to fill in for you. I want you to come in. I have a story to tell you about your father. Andrew paused and took a deep breath. “The true story of how he died in action when you were three. I promised him that I would tell you.”

“Yes sir.” Jason keyed his mike. “I need relief. ‘Big Dog’ has asked for me to come inside.” Jason waited for his relief, and then closed the door behind him and stood at attention.

“Sit down, Jason.” President Andrew Davidson motioned to the closest chair.

It had all started so innocently years ago during his final track meet.

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Book Cover – Scent of Danger

Sent of Danger Synnopsis

Nick Phillips, a young doctor at the start of his career, loses his wife Linda along with their unborn child in a car accident. All his years of training were of no use as they die before his eyes in the emergency room. He steps away from medicine, first in grief, hiding from himself and the world, then to search for a new direction to his life. He’d loved his pregnant wife dearly. He remembered their gentle times together, her soft, kind touch. Although committed to her, his obsession was for medicine. Now the drive to be the best was gone.

He can’t help others if he can’t help himself. The path once so clear, won’t come back into focus. He climbs onto his bicycle and rides away from his home in New York City. Often asked to use his skill so highly honed in medical school, he assists others on his aimless journey across the United States. Each incident brings the recovery process closer to completion.

Marcie Corrandini, the only daughter of Europe’s reigning Mafia Don, must find a heart surgeon for her ailing father, someone who doesn’t realize who he is, will travel, assess her father’s condition, and do whatever is necessary to keep him alive.

She is being followed by Interpol, and they want to know what she is up to as she travels to Paris to do business for her father’s legitimate enterprises and researches cardiologists.

When she contacts Nick’s best friend, Jim Franks, still employed by the CIA, he can’t resist an opportunity to gain knowledge of the Corrandini family. Hans Mueller from Interpol is the lead agent watching the Corrandini Family. Hans is eager to gain information and will do anything to get this doctor placed on the Corrandini yacht in Monaco.

Nick has never met anyone like Marcie. No one has ever generated this type of excitement within him. A beautiful woman who knows no fear. She is passionate, lives for today, never worries about tomorrow, and has never been denied anything.

Marcie finally glimpses the cold dark side of her father. Her father asked her to do this one thing for him that could save his life. The assassination of her father puts her on the run. She is now a target and realizes she must leave the comforts she has known all her life and find some kind of existence someplace no one will ever think to look for her. She covertly travels from Monaco to get to her bank accounts in Switzerland, transfers money to other accounts, and then goes into hiding. For the second time Nick loses a woman he cares for.

Friends and enemies assist and pursue her, and several times Marcie is found; First in a small town in Michigan, then in New York City at a children’s charity auction. Both Nick and Marcie are then put into the Witness Protection Programs, Nick by the United States and Marcie by Interpol. Only Hans Mueller seems to know where both are. How they find each other again is the story, set in Omak and Okanogan, small towns in Washington State.

Here Nick takes over an existing small town practice from a retiring doctor and Marcie, now Mary, buys an accounting firm. Their meeting is orchestrated from Europe, but also unwittingly by members of their small community as they daily pass within minutes of each other.