Dead Ringer
A Novel
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Nationally bestselling author Chris Hauty, one of the high-octane writers “to take the thriller world by storm” (The Real Book Spy), returns with a riveting stand-alone novel that explores what might have really happened at the JFK assassination.
Set in the present day, a disgraced former Secret Service officer and a Jesuit professor join forces to delve into the mysteries surrounding the events of November 22, 1963. Fixated on deciphering the conspiracies behind the history-changing assassination, they are oblivious to the fact that the cabal is still active—and may face an end as bloody as the carnage in Dealey Plaza. Will they be able to uncover the truth in time? Or will they become two more footnotes in history?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of this entertaining conspiracy thriller from Hauty (The Devil You Know), National Archives employee Olivia Heller is attacked by a club-wielding assassin on her way home from work one night, and chooses death rather than reveal a secret about the JFK assassination that she believes could destroy the nation. The next morning, Olivia's former lover, ex–Secret Service agent Joe Mingus, is told by police that she's been killed. Filled with rage, Joe goes to Olivia's house and finds Juan Verdugo, a Georgetown history professor, who says he was a close friend of Olivia's and that he received a mysterious message from her before she died. Both Juan and Joe then receive a posthumous video message from Olivia urging them to find a report about the assassination from a friend of Olivia's they've never heard of. Their search eventually leads them to a secret religious organization called the Movement, who hired Olivia's killer and engineered the election of a North Carolina senator they control. Few if any readers will predict the final twist that sets this apart from other fictional explorations of an enduring American mystery. It's a blast.
