The Spin Doctor

Hero or Cold-Blooded Killer?

RELEASING NOVEMBER 2012

by Kirk Mitchell

When Kurt Sonnenfeld comes home to discover his young, beautiful wife dead with a bullet piercing her head, he alleges she committed suicide. However, the police think otherwise. Prosecutors claim that hidden behind the façade of the charming videographer was a drug addiction that eroded his relationship with his glamorous advertising executive wife, Nancy. On a trip to Thailand, Nancy had caught Kurt naked on a bathroom floor searching for a lost heroin packet. Moreover, she vowed divorce. He is arrested for murder, but somehow soon manages to be released. However, one of the rising stars in the Denver prosecutor’s office is convinced he is guilty and a warrant has once again been issued for his arrest. But Sonnenfeld has fled the country.

Unlike most fugitives, who keep a low profile, Sonnenfeld has become one of the most visible public figures in his new home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as he fights extradition. Sonnenfeld, a former FEMA employee, claims that his 9/11 footage of Ground Zero in the week after the 9/11 attack proves top United States government officials were aware of the 2001 terrorist attacks before they occurred and that he is a victim of a U.S. plot to silence him.

The Spin Doctor tells the fascinating story of a man indicted for murder who so far has avoided arrest by convincing a foreign nation that he is not a cold-hearted killer, but a brave hero, in this action-packed, gripping international suspense thriller.

Kirk Mitchell is a feature crime reporter at The Denver Post whose work has led to the captures and convictions of child molesters and killers in the United States and Mexico. He has been a daily newspaper reporter for more than twenty-five years, covering such diverse beats as local politics, health, education and crime. He has won more than sixty Colorado, Western United States and national awards including the American Legion’s national 1997 Fourth Estate Award that honors the nation’s most impactful story by radio, TV and print media. He resides in Denver, Colorado.

Nonfiction, 6 x 9, 320 pages
8 page photo insert
LC #??, world rights
ISBN-13: 978-0-88282-394-2, (hc), $24.95