Secret Service agent Tom Gleason has taken every precaution to keep the First Family save during a pre-election campaign stop in Detroit. However, simultaneous terrorist atttacks on the President and the First Lady are orchestrated by an insider familiar with their different schedules for the day. The guilt-racked Gleason's investigation points to a terrorist mastermind hiding in plain sight. What he does not realize is that he himself has become an instrument of the President's destruction. This intense page-turner careens from Detroit to Washington, D.C. and from Canada to the Middle East in a saga of obsessive love and immense personal wealth verses unbridled federal governmental power warped by secrecy and guilt. See web site: thefirstladysleeps.com Prior to the 9/11 tragedy, I read a news story of an expectant mother critically injured in an accident. As this story played out over many months, her husband and their two children were caught up in a maelstrom of controversial publicity. My attempts at writing an op-ed article addressing the end-of-life issues: family, moral, medical and legal complications raised more questions than answers. With the saturation of media coverage surrounding this once obscure family, I wondered what would happen if the First Family were involved, so that's how an obscure family's ordeal turned into the national tragedy related in The First Lady Sleeps . Secret Service Tom Gleason has taken every precauton to keep the First Family safe during a pre-election campaign stop in Detroit. However, simultaneous terrorist attacks on the President and the First Lady are orchestrated by an insider familiar with their different schedules for the day. The guilt racked Gleason's investigation points to a terrorist mastermind hiding in plain sight. What he does not realize is that he himself has become an instrument of the president's destruction. This tense page-turner creens from Detroit to Washington, D.C. and from Canada to the Middle East in a saga of obsessive love and immense personal wealth verses federal governmental power warped by secrecy and guilt. See website:thefirstladysleeps.com Dr. John Mullally since retiring from dentistry has grown to ever appreciate his patient friends for their interesting character development ideas in his writing, which is now his main interest along with his grandchildren. His study of philosophy, science and the classics bolster the fast moving contemporary plot that reflects his reading taste of an intense storyline with morally conflicted characters trying to do the right thing even if for the wrong reason. His readers will find it hard to put aside The First Lady Sleeps.