Beat the Devils Hardback
by Josh Weiss
Hardback
Description
USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely-concealed anti-Semitism.
The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti-communist propaganda. LAPD detective Morris Baker-a Holocaust survivor who drowns his fractured memories of the unspeakable in schnapps and work-is called to the scene of a horrific double-homicide.
The victims are John Huston, a once-promising but now forgotten film director, and an up-and-coming young journalist named Walter Cronkite.
Clutched in the hand of one of the dead men is a cryptic note containing the phrase "beat the devils" followed by a single name: Baker.
Did the two men die in an attack fueled by better-dead-than-red sentiment, as the Hueys are quick to conclude, or were they murdered in a cover-up designed to protect-or even set in motion-a secret plot connected to Baker's past?In a country where terror grows stronger by the day, and paranoia rises unchecked, Baker is determined to find justice for two men who raised their voices in a time when free speech comes at the ultimate cost.
In the course of his investigation, Baker stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of power and uncovers a secret that could destroy the City of Angels-and the American ideal itself.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
- Publication Date:21/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781538719442
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
- Publication Date:21/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781538719442
