Another Excerpt from my newest, “Venoms”

In 1971, Max King is the new president of the Intern-Resident Association at LA County Hospital. A nurse there, Mary Francis, asks for his help following the mysterious disappearance of her husband, Mike, an infectious disease fellow and protégé of Franklin Delano Rousseau (FDR), a famous faculty member at USC who specializes in venomous snakes. Max agrees to help.

In this chapter, Max’s colleague tells him about the 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel, an effort by President Nixon’s campaign team to bug the phones at Democratic headquarters.