Beat the Devils av Josh Weiss

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<B>This inventive, page-turning crime thriller, shortlisted for the Sidewise Award, with "palpable emotional depth" (<I>New York Times</I> Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended.</B><BR/><BR/><I>USA, 1958.</I> 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 McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti‑communist propaganda.<BR/><BR/> 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‑promisin