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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 50s 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,…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2017Faber & Faber, Limited · 432 pages · 9780571323876
- Other · English · 2016Faber & Faber, Limited · 300 pages · 9780571323852
- Other · English · 2016Europa Editions · 385 pages · 9781609452872
- Other · English · 2016Faber & Faber, Limited · 432 pages · 9780571323845
- Other · English · 2016Europa Editions, Incorporated · 400 pages · 9781609453305
Private investigatorsKidnappingFictionFiction, thrillersFiction, alternative historyFiction, thrillers, generalConspiraciesAustralian fiction