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Beat the Devils [Audiobook]
Audio CD
Main Details
Title |
Beat the Devils [Audiobook]
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Josh Weiss
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Category/Genre | Audiobooks on CD Thriller Trade Publishers Audiobooks All Dates Thriller |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781668608579
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Edition |
Audiobook
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Trade Publishers Audiobooks
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Imprint |
Grand Central Publishing
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NZ Release Date |
22 March 2022 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
An inventive, page-turning crime thriller set in an alternate United States during the height of the Red Scare--with shocking parallels to America in the 2020s.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 McCarthys Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House of Unamerican Activities Committee. Hollywoods 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 a murder-suicide, as the Hueys are quick to conclude, or were they murdered in a coverup designed to protect--or even set in motion--a secret plot connected to Bakers 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 uncover a secret that could destroy the City of Angels--and the American ideal itself.
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