Fever City
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- Synopsis
- &“Puts a new twist on the Kennedy assassination . . . [a] remarkable first novel . . . delights in sex, hypocrisy and political conspiracy&” (The Washington Post). If you took James Ellroy at his most imaginative and Oliver Stone at his most conspiratorial, and mixed them up in a supersized martini shaker, you would produce the vivid writing, explosive events, and irresistible entertainment of Fever City, a Shamus Award finalist. The story kicks off in 1960 Los Angeles, with the daring kidnapping of the child of one of America&’s richest men. It then darts back and forth between a private detective&’s urgent search for the child, the saga of a notorious hit man in the days leading to JFK&’s assassination, and the modern-day story of a skeptical journalist researching the still-active conspiracy theories of the 1950s and &’60s, with the aim of debunking them. Just as the detective discovers that the kidnapping is a crime much larger than he imagined, and the hit man finds himself caught in a web that is astonishingly complex, the journalist discovers—to his horror, dismay, and even his jeopardy—that the conspiracy theories might well be true. &“In this ambitious debut Baker gives us a bare-knuckle take on the president&’s murder and adds two other plotlines, connecting them solidly with the equivalent of a jab-jab-cross combination.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“Hits you like a cannonball . . . A turbo-charged, beautifully written noir, Fever City is one of those mind-blowingly ambitious debuts that only comes along once in a great while.&” —Stav Sherez, author of Eleven Days
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 400 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781609453305
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781609452872
- Publisher:
- Europa Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 12/16/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Tim Baker
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.