The Hope Not Plot

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>As 90-year-old Winston Churchill barely clings to life in January 1965 Great Britain and the world prepares for the funeral of the century. The long-planned grand farewell has a code name: </span><em style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Operation Hope Not</em><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>.  A who's who list of world leaders plan to attend.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>But Lyndon B. Johnson is a no show.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Why does the President of the United States a consummate and ego-driven politician who has just been inaugurated for his own term following a landslide election victory the previous November choose to stay home instead of making his presence known as the leader of the free world while 350 million people watch via new satellite technology. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>And why doesn't President Johnson send his new Vice President Hubert Humphrey in his stead? Why also will the American Secretaries of State and Defense travel to London as part of the official US delegation only to </span><em style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>skip</em><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)> the actual service at historic St. Paul's Church? </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Why indeed. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>With these verified </span><strong style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)><em>historical facts</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)> as a backdrop best-selling author </span><strong style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>DAVID R. STOKES</strong><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)> takes us through the looking glass and into a world of shadows mystery and intrigue. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>America and the world have not yet fully recovered from the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Yet in a way that seems to connect back to that awful moment in November 1963 there are rumors of </span><em style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>another</em><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)> conspiracy one involving a possible attack connected to Churchill's funeral when more than 100 world leaders are assembled in one confined place. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>President Johnson reaches out to a team of trusted operatives in the intelligence world all off the record of course. These men some whose names will eventually become infamous have a singular mission: </span><strong style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>to prevent a catastrophe that could change the course of human history. </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>The American agents uncover a plot more far-reaching than they could have ever imagined. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>At the center of </span><strong style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)><em>THE HOPE NOT PLOT</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)> is Winston Churchill </span><em style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>himself</em><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>. His accomplishments. His mistakes. His admirers. And his enemies. </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)><em>THE HOPE NOT PLOT </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>is fiction yet it is saturated with historical details. You may wonder what is real and what is made up and be tempted to reach for your smart phone to check things out.</span></p>