“In the plethora of works on the 1970s and the Watergate scandal, Frank Wills is often only mentioned in passing (and even then, rarely named) or relegated to obscurity in footnotes. Yet, as the 24-year-old security guard who first discovered evidence of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C., Wills played a singular role in the unraveling of America’s biggest political scandal. In this absorbing biography, Henig offers the first serious and systematic examination of Watergate through the lens of Wills. ...this book convincingly portrays the Watergate figure as a 20th-century hero. ...this is a powerful, tragic biography of a man who, in the words of Bob Woodward, was ‘the only one in Watergate who did his job perfectly.’ A remarkably well-researched and definitive account of an unheralded American hero.”—Kirkus Reviews
