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Fever City, this year's hottest thriller'A blistering debut of great ambition and scope, realised with the skill of an old pro.' Eva Dolan, author of Long Way Home'An inventive take on the great American conspiracy theory.' The Times, Crime Club'Mighty impressive ... Baker has the audacity to revisit the web of conspiracies surrounding the JFK assassination ... considering the subject matter, I was not expecting to even like the book, but was blown away.' Maxim Jakubowski, LOVEREADINGNick 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.Violent, vivid, visceral: FEVER CITY is a high--octane, nightmare journey through a Mad Men-era America of dark powers, corruption and conspiracy.
About the Author
Born in Sydney, Tim Baker lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he wrote about jazz. He has worked on film projects in India, China, Mexico, Brazil and Australia, and currently lives in the South of France with his wife, their son, and two rescue animals, a dog and a cat.His debut novel, the neo-noir thriller FEVER CITY, was published in 2016 and went on to be shortlisted for the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger award as well as being nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Award for best first novel.His new novel, CITY WITHOUT STARS, an epic thriller set in Mexico, is out with Faber & Faber January 2018.Praise For Fever CitySome fine novels have explored the assassination (of JFK) including Stephen King’s “11/22/63” . . . To this list we can now add Tim Baker’s remarkable first novel “Fever City.” Baker tells his story in three related plots set in 1960, 1963 and 2014, and he constantly moves back and forth among them. Keeping up can be a challenge, but it’s one repaid by inspired writing, memorable characters and an exhilarating, all but overpowering story . . . Baker enhances his daring plot with vivid prose . . . “Fever City” delights in sex, hypocrisy and political conspiracy, but finally it’s about a tragedy that reverberates down through the years – Patrick Anderson, The Washington PostThis is a novel packed with tough-guy poetry, deeply felt emotions and startling images . . . The story twists and turns at speed like the famous ‘magic bullet’ that may or may not have killed the president . . . A superb debut novel. A direct hit – Jeff Noon, The Spectator, UKA “what-if” thriller about America’s favorite idée fixe, the Kennedy assassination . . . 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 . . . All three narrative threads turn out to wrap around Philip Hastings, a tormented hit man who stands at the center of a noirish storm of corruption, violence and depravity . . . At the core of “Fever City” is the sorrowful, all-too-real geography of Dealey Plaza, the terrain of history, “one huge killing field” that lends this alternative tale its heft. – The New York Times Book Review, USA
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