A fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of
an extraordinary historical event-the attempted assassination of
President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and
the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, DC, that saved
the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York
Times bestselling novelist Stephen Hunter, and John Bainbridge,
Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at
once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and
the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that
almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of
the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good
men-ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line
of duty-stopped it. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably
hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary
residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes
a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different
directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family
man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look
dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm,
purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What
the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot
guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm automatic pistol and
in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point-blank range,
Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the
president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the
story of that November day with narrative power and careful
attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner
workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the
perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story
of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which
they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the
moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroism-the
quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some
people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives.
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