Windmills of the Gods is a novel released in 1987 and is written by one of American best thriller writers Sidney Sheldon. Like some others Sheldon books, this one also adapted into a TV miniseries in 1988.
The story tells about the life of Mary Ashley, a professor of Kansas State University, who is chosen by the president of the USA to be ambassador in Romania, behind the Iron Curtain. However, since her husband Dr. Edward Ashley does not want to abandon his medical practice and leave his patient while it is impossible for her to be separated from him and because Mary considers that getting an ambassador is easier than finding a good doctor in Kansas, that beautiful and proficient scholar rejects the president’s offer. However, after her husband suspicious death in a traffic accident, Mary finds a void in her life and finally accepts the offer to be a US ambassador. She is sent to Romania, where she finds herself dragged in the East-West conflict and there is a conspiracy against her. Amid all of those perilous dangers, she holds a role that might change the world events, if only she survives the terror and the assassin who marks her.
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