Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 novel by American thriller writer Sidney Sheldon.
Plot summary
Mary
Ashley, a professor at the
University of Kansas is offered an ambassadorship by the President of the United States. She rejects the
offer because her
husband does not want to leave his medical practice, and she is not willing to be separated from him. She also feels that it is harder to find a good doctor for a small
Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country. When her husband suddenly dies in a suspicious traffic accident,
Ashley accepts the President's offer in order to fill the void in her life. She is sent to Romania, behind the Iron
Curtain, where she finds that everyone is conspiring against her. The world's most efficient and mysterious assassin has marked her for death, thereby plunging her into a nightmare of terror. Only two people -- both powerfully attractive and enigmatic men -- can help her. And one of them wants to kill her.