Book Synopsis: The baffling green case hit the front pages of the national press and stayed there, as rumors, speculations, accusations, and bizarre plots were paraded before a puzzled and avid public. How could a man like Stephen Greer -- extremely prominent Washington attorney and close friend of the President -- simply vanish without a trace? And if it was by his own volition -- why?
Many "insiders" were convinced it was a case of embezzlement and flight to a foreign sanctuary; others saw a sordid homosexual alliance. But to a few Washington professionals, a pattern began to emerge that suggested defection. With a Presidential election coming up, any one of these answers could be politically disastrous to the President.
And that might or might not have something to do with why the CIA was specifically excluded from the case, why and FBI agent and an especially diligent newspaperman suddenly disappeared also, and why confidential conversations between the President and his press secretary found their way into certain official dossiers.
This is a first-rate political thriller with the kind of high-level Washington governmental intrigue that characterized Seven Days in May, which Mr. Knebel wrote with Charles W. Bailey, II. VANISHED sweeps the reader into that exciting world, and, with mounting tension, the quest to find the missing lawyer speeds to an ending that is surprising, satisfying, and pertinent to our times.
