William S. Shepard, S. Shepard

Bill Shepard is a former career diplomat who served in five American Embassies overseas. While assigned to the State Department in Washington, he helped arrange trips on Air Force Two for the Secretary of State. In retirement on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he has created a new mystery genre, the diplomatic mystery, with Robbie Cutler, a young career diplomat, as sleuth. In The Saladin Affair, fourth in the series, a new dimension is added, as Robbie accompanies the new Secretary of State to his European rendezvous with the leaders of six nations - and an Al Qaeda assassination plot.