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Fever City

Fever City

Baker, Tim

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN10: 1609452879
ISBN13: 9781609452872
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: May 10 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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

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