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Title details for Fever City by Tim Baker - Available

Fever City

by Tim Baker
Dan Russell
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Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America's richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become ensnared by a sinister cabal that spreads from the White House all the way to Dealey Plaza. Decades later in Dallas, Alston's son stumbles across evidence from JFK conspiracy buffs that just might link his father to the shot heard round the world.

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  • Release date

    August 1, 2016

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781510035409
      • File size: 357112 KB
      • Duration: 12:23:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 22, 2016
      James Ellroy fans will appreciate Australian-born Baker’s ambitious debut with its nervous, jittery style, large cast of characters, and cynical, nihilistic attitude. Set mainly during the early 1960s, the story focuses on the ransom kidnapping of the adopted son of one of America’s richest men and the approaching assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, though the action at times shifts back to the 1940s and forward to 2014. A parade of sadistic thugs, former movie stars, hopelessly corrupt police, revenge-seeking private eyes, and power-hungry billionaires mix with such familiar faces and famous names as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Sam Giancana, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. Crammed with violence, sadism, torture, and sex, this audacious novel is sure to appeal to champions of Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK, though some readers may grow weary of all the excesses long before the end. Agent: Tom Witcomb, Blake Friedmann Agency (U.K.).

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