Presidential Disease / Stratton Press (ePub)

Robert retires from the Paterson Fire Department to take a job as Public Safety Director of the Federal Government in Washington DC. His second day on the job he wakes up to find the President and the first family has been murdered. It is a terrorist plot against the United States Government.

The Director and his staff try to solve why the President was murdered. He has to perform his job as Public Safety Director even when he becomes the target of the terrorist. The Director has to learn how to think like a police officer not a firefighter.

His job is to deal with The White House Police, the FBI, Secret Service, and District Police and Fire Departments and a Civilian review board. He falls in love with three women but has to be careful not to get into a Washington Scandal.

Robert G Hrib was born in Passaic New Jersey on July 24, 1955. His family moved from Haledon, New Jersey to a small town in Northern Jersey called Little Falls. At the age of three, he wanted to help people as an EMT or a firefighter. He attended schools in Little Falls. Robert always disliked school and his best grades were "Cs" but mostly "Ds". When he reached the age of sixteen he joined the Enterprise Fire Company in Little Falls. Two years later he became a civil defense firefighter in the City of Paterson, New Jersey. About ten years later he passed the civil service test for firefighter and was hired by the Paterson Fire Department. He was promoted to the position of captain in 1990. Then in 2002 he was promoted to the rank of battalion chief. He retired in 2009 after servicing 25 years. He has two children a boy and a girl, Robert Michael and Shannon Michael. Currently he lives in Brick Town, New Jersey and Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.

He has written three other books: The Third Beginning, The Third Beginning Part 2 According to Robert and Karen, and The Third Beginning Grand Finally. He is working on a fifth booked called Capturing the Toucan.