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02688aam a2200373 i 4500 001 648948F0A9A511ECADE8123B38ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220322010035 008 210820s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021041419 020 $a 1538719444 020 $a 9781538719442 035 $a (OCoLC)1257292469 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ON8 $d TCH $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Weiss, Josh, $e author. 245 10 $a Beat the devils / $c Josh Weiss. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grand Central Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a 363 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House of Unamerican Activities Committee. Hollywood's 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 Baker's 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 uncovers a secret that could destroy the City of Angels-and the American ideal itself"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Alternative histories (Fiction) $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031529.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230404014828.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220507010653.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220322010137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=648948F0A9A511ECADE8123B38ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search