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Beat the Devils (Paperback) Loot Price: R426
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Beat the Devils (Paperback): Josh Weiss

Beat the Devils (Paperback)

Josh Weiss

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Loot Price R426 Discovery Miles 4 260

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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 fuelled 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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Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2023
Authors: Josh Weiss
Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-1-5387-1945-9
Categories: Books > Fiction > General
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LSN: 1-5387-1945-2
Barcode: 9781538719459

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