Deadly Risks - Hardcover

Lew Paper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931643962 ISBN 13: 9781931643962

Publisher: Seven Locks Pr, 2008

Synopsis

A heart-pounding thriller which provides a new slant on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The novel revolves around a young woman s pursuit of her father s hidden past and the role he played in President Kennedy s murder. Kelly Roberts knows nothing of her father s secret life until he dies and a lawyer gives her a letter from her father with the ominous warning that she should discuss it with no one but him. When she later tries to contact the lawyer, she learns that he has died suddenly leaving her to pursue the mystery of her father s letter without the lawyer s guidance. With twists and insights based on political reality and historical fact, Deadly Risks weaves a tale of intrigue and passion that resounds with the ring of authenticity

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About the Author

Lew Paper is the author of five other books -- John F. Kennedy: The Promise and the Performance; Brandeis: An Intimate Biography; Empire: William S. Paley and the Making of CBS; Perfect: Don Larsen's Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen; and In the Cauldron: Terror, Tension, and the American Ambassador's Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor.  His articles and book reviews have appeared in a number of periodicals, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic, and The American Scholar.  He is a former Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a former Teaching Fellow in Government at Harvard College.  You can contact Lew and read about his other books at lewpaper.com.

Reviews

The JFK assassination has attracted some big-name thriller authors over the years (McCarry, Littell, Ellroy). Now veteran nonfiction writer Paper throws his hat into the ring with a new interpretation of one of the most written-about incidents in American history. Soon after a Washington lawyer dies on safari in Africa, his sister, Kelly, receives a letter that her brother had been safekeeping. The letter, written by her late father, reveals that he was involved in the assassination of JFK. Together, Kelly and Jim Roth, a Senate staffer, try to decode a clue in the letter and perhaps solve, once and for all, the mystery surrounding what happened in November 1963. Paper is by no means a novelist of the caliber of McCarry et al., but he tells an engaging, well-structured, and briskly paced tale, and he makes us believe, at least in the context of the novel, that his particular conspiracy theory is plausible. David Pitt
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Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Locks Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931643962
• ISBN 13: 9781931643962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 333