The doomsday conspiracy- Sidney Sheldo

Sidney Sheldon was an American writer and producer.

He came to prominence in1930s first working on broadway plays
and then in motion pictures, he also won an Academy Awards.
He is considered as one of the best-selling romantic-suspense
novel writer such as:
Masters of the game
The other side of midnight
Rage of angels and so on
He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.

Commander Robert Bellamy is nearing retirement age and would

like a cushy desk job; however, he is called in on a special
assignment because of his unique skills. For one thing, the
assignment requires familiarity with many difficult languages. He is
given an unlimited budget but is told he must work strictly under
cover.

Bellamy is ordered to locate the witnesses to the crash of a weather

balloon was of a secret design and that the American authorities are
anxious to identify the witnesses, who were all passengers aboard
a tour bus, in order to swear them to secrecy.

When Bellamy reaches Switzerland he soon finds out that the so-
called weather balloon was really a UFO and that the tour-bus
passengers saw the bodies of two aliens from outer space. He uses
all his expertise to identify the witnesses and relays their names
and addresses back to his superior. What he does not know is that
each witness is being murdered as quickly as he or she is identified.

Bellamys quest takes him all over Europe, North America, and
Russia. The ruses he employs to learn witnesses names and
addresses are sometimes truly ingenious and constitute the most
interesting part of Sheldons book. As soon as Bellamy has
completed his assignment, he finds that he himself has been placed
on the hit list by a cabal of top-ranking officials of many different
governments, who are concerned that the arrival of extraterrestrial
visitors may cause worldwide panic or economic chaos. Facing
imminent assassination, Bellamy receives unexpected help from a
third alien creature, an exotic female with awesome psychic
powers.

Sidney Sheldon was a highly successful film writer and went on to

become an even more successful author of popular novels. THE
DOOMSDAY CONSPIRACY is not very original either in theme or
characterization; however, it is a thoroughly slick job of fiction
writing, with an easy-to-follow plot that carries the reader on a
luxury tour of Washington, Zurich, Bern, Geneva, London, Munich,
Rome, Brussels, Ottawa, Kiev, Bucharest, Naples, and other
interesting places. Sheldons new book is an example of what may
become a dominant subgenre in the international thriller category: a
post-Cold War novel in which governments are not pitted against
one another but against their own constituents.