Washington, D.C., September 2003

Millie Wells, a rather head strong young lady, innocently takes photographs of two Middle Eastern looking men, who menacingly begin to follow her when she leaves work. Managing to evade them, she arrives at her apartment, and barges in on her unsuspecting next-door neighbor, seeking his help. As it turns out, he is FBI Special Agent, Jim Marshall, who is having problems dealing with advancing age and retreating nerves. Jim becomes attracted by Millie’ s charms, and they manage to keep a love affair going over this fast-paced adventure.

Jim seeks the support of the FBI’ s Counter-Terrorism Division, as they uncover a possible terrorist plot to destroy this country’ s entire counter-terrorism intelligence gathering capability. Jim and Millie are caught in a real-life game of cat-and-mouse, with ensuing gun battles that leave dead bodies strewn from downtown Washington, D.C., to the woods of Fairfax County. As the end nears, Jim is confronted by a ghost from the past, and wonders if he hasn’ t waited too long to retire from the agency.

FBI Agent Jim Marshall has managed to fake his own death in order to elude al-Qaida operatives seeking revenge for his outwitting them in their three attempts to kill the President and cause major havoc within the Capitol.

Now he is retired but the FBI asks him for his assistance to profile a Serial Killer operating in the Washington area. Area police departments are at wits end to identify and arrest this killer.

What begins as a simple task soon gets him entangled in the decadent crime of child molestation, which he soon discovers it involves a Congressman, and his daughter.

After successfully identifying the killer, Jim develops so much empathy for the killer that he begins to lose sight of his original assignment.

However, the worst of all possible things happens, someone uncovers his identity. He then must decide if he is willing to give in to the demands of the blackmailer, or deal with him directly in the only way he knows how, by killing him.

Now his one friend within the White House begins to question his earlier decision of assisting him in the cover-up of his faked death. As a result, Jim and his two close friends find that their lives are in danger once again, this time from within the government itself.

FBI Agent Jim Marshall has managed to fake his own death in order to elude al-Qaida operatives seeking revenge for his outwitting them in their three attempts to kill the President and cause major havoc within the Capitol.

Now he is retired but the FBI asks him for his assistance to profile a Serial Killer operating in the Washington area. Area police departments are at wits end to identify and arrest this killer.

What begins as a simple task soon gets him entangled in the decadent crime of child molestation, which he soon discovers it involves a Congressman, and his daughter.

After successfully identifying the killer, Jim develops so much empathy for the killer that he begins to lose sight of his original assignment.

However, the worst of all possible things happens, someone uncovers his identity. He then must decide if he is willing to give in to the demands of the blackmailer, or deal with him directly in the only way he knows how, by killing him.

Now his one friend within the White House begins to question his earlier decision of assisting him in the cover-up of his faked death. As a result, Jim and his two close friends find that their lives are in danger once again, this time from within the government itself.

In the dynamic novel The Final Offense, the last sequel of a planned trilogy to A Federal Offense, and A Second Offense, author Harold Edward Poole brings the international terrorist playing field to a whole new level by revealing the intense human anxieties and spells of humor entailed in dealing with the pressures of confronting death on a nonstop timetable. I began to think this might be an exercise in futility. With my advanced age and uncontrollable anxieties becoming even more acute, I didn't know if I would be able to live through another mission. I could tell that my mental and physical quickness was not what it was even a year ago. My sweet wife Julie, who was killed in the Pentagon attack by the Al Qaida, didn't even bother to come around to visit my mind much any more. Perhaps it was finally time for me to quit this killing game, and I promised myself that if I lived through this mission, it would be my last. When the government intercepts Internet traffic that indicates a third attack on the nation's capitol, retired FBI Special Agent Jim Marshall is called back to service. friends physically threatened by the members of an Al-Qaeda cell operating out of Washington DC. Using experience gained by thirty years as a field agent, Marshall is able to discover their plans and attempts to stop them before the attacks aimed at high-ranking political officials can be completed.

Washington, D.C., September 2003

Millie Wells, a rather head strong young lady, innocently takes photographs of two Middle Eastern looking men, who menacingly begin to follow her when she leaves work. Managing to evade them, she arrives at her apartment, and barges in on her unsuspecting next-door neighbor, seeking his help. As it turns out, he is FBI Special Agent, Jim Marshall, who is having problems dealing with advancing age and retreating nerves. Jim becomes attracted by Millie’ s charms, and they manage to keep a love affair going over this fast-paced adventure.

Jim seeks the support of the FBI’ s Counter-Terrorism Division, as they uncover a possible terrorist plot to destroy this country’ s entire counter-terrorism intelligence gathering capability. Jim and Millie are caught in a real-life game of cat-and-mouse, with ensuing gun battles that leave dead bodies strewn from downtown Washington, D.C., to the woods of Fairfax County. As the end nears, Jim is confronted by a ghost from the past, and wonders if he hasn’ t waited too long to retire from the agency.