Books by John Sager

In this most unusual novel, author John Sager takes his readers on a photographic tour of the places he has visited over the past sixty years: Iran, China, South America, Kamchatka, Alberta, and, yes, his home on the beautiful shores of Lake Washington. His principal character is Jeffry Wilkens, a long-ago-retired photo/journalist who never leaves home without his camera. With more than 150 images to choose from, readers are bound to find a few that appeal

Author John Sager writes about a country with which he is intimately familiar, having visited New Zealand several times in the 1980s. His principal character is Jeffry Reardon, a private investigator on leave from his Bellevue, Washington law firm. With the help of native Maori friends, he discovers the perpetrators of several crimes: a drug-running syndicate in the nation's capital and a murder closer to home. As committed Christians, he and his Kiwi wife establish rehabilitation clinics for the country's drug addicts and their families.

Eleanor Wilson, the 46th president of the United States, elected to her position by the thinnest of margins, four electoral votes. A life-long and certified Liberal from the state of Massachusetts, she brings to the nation''s capital a team of likeminded helpers. Her legislative agenda includes The Green New Deal, the forgiveness of college student debt, Medicare for All and free college education for those who want it. America''s adversaries soon learn that she is a neophyte in the realm of foreign policy, and pay her no attention. Over the course of her four-years in office, the nation''s debt climbs to 24 trillion dollars. She loses her bid for another four-year term and most political observers conclude that she was the worst president in the nation''s history.

In this novel, author John Sager takes his readers to his most familiar venue, the CIA''s Moscow station. (In real life, he served there for three years, in the 1960s.) His alter ego, Robert (Bob) Oxner has been sent to Moscow as the Agency''s Chief of Station. What follows is a series of not-so-traditional espionage operations, sometimes on his own, sometimes in cooperation with the Russian FSB, its internal security service. The stakes couldn''t be higher, as the president of the United States travels to Moscow to make things right.

From far-away Pakistan the long arm of Islamist terrorism reaches into the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Islamic State operatives are using the northward-moving caravans of Latin American asylum-seekers as cover for their nefarious schemes: to sever Interstate 90 by destroying the Lake Washington floating bridge and render inoperable Seattle''s newly completed SR 99 tunnel. In a remarkable display of intragovernmental cooperation, the FBI and CIA manage to thwart the plotters'' schemes; but they nearly fail to do so.

Tehran Revisited is the fictional memoir of author John Sager, who served as part of the CIA's Tehran station in the 1950s. He sometimes dreams of returning for a brief visit, knowing it's unrealistic. Instead, this is his story.The tale is contemporary, as the American president--frustrated by his unavailing tweets--has directed the Central Intelligence Agency to bring about regime change in Iran. The critical caveat is to have no American fingerprints.Using a most unlikely array of agents and helpers, the agency succeeds in its mission, but not without the help of Roya, a beautiful young woman who has the last word.