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Jethro Lieberman ’64 writes a new book in a new genre

June 26, 2021

Since 2000, Jethro Lieberman has written six books, all non-fiction. His newest book, Everything is Jake, is a novel featuring the fictional detective T.R. Softly. It’s described on Amazon as follows ...

“A federal plea deal in Manhattan goes off the rails when a mob boss inexplicably recants his testimony days after voluntarily confessing to a lifetime of crime, and immediately, an FBI agent involved with the case goes missing. To find out what happened, the Feds call in T. R. Softly, detective fiction’s newest and most intuitive sleuth. Softly’s search takes him to Washington, D.C., where the ‘oddest of the forty-odd presidents of the United States’ is suddenly laying plans to evaporate the U.S. government, as assassination rumors percolate in dark corners. Co-opted into partnering with a secret government agency, Softly struggles to understand how many games are being played and by whom. Is he master of his fate or has he been the unwitting agent of friends and foe? A twisting, rollicking tale that enthralls readers until the last page.”

The novel will be published in October, but you can pre-order it now on Amazon.