Checkmate Author:Alex Gabbard Award winning author Alex Gabbard thrusts readers into lives of government secrecy, with assassins luring about, a day-dreaming scientist, a frightened bomb builder, aspiring rock stars, an enterprising computer jock, a bungling secret agent, and a failed concert pianist, Beethoven, da Vinci, and ""The Babe,"" all wrapped in the sinister cloak o... more »f intrigue.« less