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Lädt ... Winter Kills (Original 1974; 2013. Auflage)von Richard Condon (Autor)
Werk-InformationenWinter Kills von Richard Condon (1974)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Nick, brother of an assassinated president of the US and son of one of the richest men in the world, learns about who killed his brother 14 years ago and gets sucked into finding who really financed this murder. Written in the 70s, this book has themes that we will recognize as well -- the media, the money, the manipulations. It took me a while to get into this one, but it was worth the wait. ( ) Just about everyone who was alive on that fateful day in November 1963 remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. In 2038 the classified details of that event are supposed to be made public, but Condon has beaten them to the punch. I'll bet his description of the assassination is spot on. Zeige 2 von 2
This clever reader figured out at least a hundred pages before the hero did that it was actually the Joe Kennedy papa who arranged the assassination of [the] John Kennedy president -- ... Condon is the author of The Manchurian Candidate and nine more forgotten novels; this one may restore him to the front parlor. It is entertaining. Prestigeträchtige Auswahlen
A whistleblower looks too deeply into a president's assassination in this darkly satiric conspiracy thriller from the author of The Manchurian Candidate. It has been more than a decade since the assassination of US President Timothy Kegan, who was gunned down while riding in a motorcade through the streets of Philadelphia. The "lone gunman" responsible was arrested and convicted, and the country has moved on. President Kegan's half-brother Nick tries to move on as well--until he overhears the deathbed confession of a man who claims to have been a second shooter. Suddenly Nick's embroiled in a Kafkaesque conspiracy that stretches from Washington DC to Cuba and all the way into England's Court of St. James. He's surrounded by mobsters, oil magnates, crooked cops, religious leaders, CIA "spooks," Hollywood celebrities, and international power brokers--including the renowned Washington hostess, fixer, and femme fatale, Lola Camonte--all of whom seem intent upon doing him in. And the closer Nick comes to the startling truth about the assassination, the less he really wants to know. Winter Kills is an outrageously dark and funny take on the John F. Kennedy assassination and the conspiracy furor that followed it, from the master storyteller who brought you The Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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