Fear Itself

Fear Itself is a time-travel, alternate history novel based on an true historical incident. In the story, instead of a near miss, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is assassinated in Miami, Florida in 1933 two weeks before his Inauguration. His death creates a time-line in which Joseph P. Kennedy becomes President in 1935 and allies the United States with Nazi Germany. He avoids a world war in the 1940s but creates a Fascist America. Although peaceful and efficient, the country becomes a joyless police state. Tom Armour, a young political activist, whose grandfather witnessed the assassination as a boy, is raised to keep the spark of liberty alive. An underground group of elderly citizens find a way to sent Tom back in time to try to prevent the assassination. His mission is disrupted by a determined government agent, and Tom arrives in 1933 naked and penniless with the agent and J. Edgar Hoover hot on his tail. The story follows Tom’s wild journey from the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park to New York City and Miami during which he teams up and falls in love with a pretty young stunt pilot, and gets help from Babe Ruth, Cole Porter, Fred Astaire, Eddie Cantor and his teenage grandfather.