Secrecy and Gamesmanship paperback NEW 2022 by Guntis Goncarovs

1901. It was the beginning of a grand new century. William McKinley was re-elected president. Roosevelt was now the vice-president and wanted a secret spy agency for the executive branch. The Pan-Am Exposition heralded electricity as a new power to light the world, The American economy was booming, engineering innovations eclipsed previously believed limits, and submarines captured the Navy's attention. But a failed assassination on Kaiser Wilhelm started a cascade of events that threatened to spiral the world's fragile balance of power out of control.Secrecy and Gamesmanship is set in 1901, primarily in the United States. William McKinley had been re-elected president with Theodore Roosevelt as his vice-president. Prior to the Spanish-American War in 1898, as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt brought in John Wilkie to rebuild the Secret Service and split off a special group of agents who would eventually become a spy agency for the Executive Branch.Sam Carter, a Citadel g