Slime Thy Enemy

About the Book

The book deals with a report that the President groped a female reporter in the Oval Office. This is one of many charges recently leveled against the President. To combat these charges, the President and his Chief of Staff decide to form a covert group in the White House to smear his enemies.  Two misfits are recruited to carry out this campaign; one is an FBI agent and the other a Staff writer in the USDA. Both are about to be fired from the government. They are assigned to a nonexistent office in the Old Executive Office Building. Ample resources are made available to hire additional personnel: including a retired FBI agent, a former US senator close to indictment and a secretary with limited clerical abilities. The  book is apolitical and does not involve the two major parties.   

Five targets are identified by the White House: a whistle blower who is critical of the President's energy polices; a popular radio commentator who is receiving sensitive inside information from the White House; an Under Secretary of State who represents a challenge to the President; the potential Presidential candidate and a groped female reporter. The action shifts from a biker-bar in California, a country music station in Oklahoma, the State Department and the business /theater districts in New York City. With some misinformation, superb timing and a lot of luck, the group is amazingly adept at solving many of the President’s problems.

About the Author

Dr. Kearney has BS and MS degrees from University of Maryland and a PhD degree from Cornell University. He accepted a Post Doctorate position in Biochemistry at Michigan State University. He was hired as a research Chemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center.  Kearney conducted research on the fate of pesticides in the environment. He served on several panels in the National Academy of Sciences, and the White House Interagency Committee on Agent Orange.  He served as Environmental Coordinator in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture. Kearney published over 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and compiled several  books on environmental issues. He currently copublishes two newsletters annually that deal primarily with environmental issues concerning the Chesapeake Bay.  The distribution is about  printed 300 copies. He has a deep insight into how the government functions, both good and bad. He has met or worked with many of the types of characters encountered in his book. .