I just asked if he killed himself on another thread not thinking that was the case.
But yeah, he could have had cancer.
Begining to sound like Charles McCarry’s novel, “Shelley’s Heart”, 1995 in which a Chief Justice is murdered for political purposes.
From this crisis, master storyteller Charles McCarry, author of such classic thrillers as The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper weaves a masterpiece of political intrigue. Shelley’s Heart is so gripping in its realism and so striking in its foresight that McCarry’s devoted readers may view this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America as an act of prophecy.
Charles McCarry was a career CIA intelligence field officer