Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the
Bernie Gunther thrillers. America 1960. In Washington DC John F Kennedy has just been
elected President. In Havana Fidel Castro has been in office for a year and with Cold War
tensions rapidly heating up and the Soviets leading the space race the thought of a Communist
leader so close to home is already raising American blood pressure. Anti-communist fever is
rampant in the USA with a paranoid establishment seeing reds under every bed. Nevertheless
the decision to snuff out the threat of Castro by hiring Tom Jefferson America's best assassin
to kill him comes from an unusual quarter: the Mafia. But Jefferson's very skillset that makes
him the perfect man for this job also ensures he has no qualms in double crossing his criminal
paymasters. Jefferson has no issue with Castro: his preferred target is someone much closer to
home... 'Mind boggling ... keeps you guessing until the end' Sunday Express
