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N.Y.: Putnam 1999 , 1999. 1st edition, (June 1999). Uncorrected Page Proofs, fine in decorated wraps. Set in Boston in 1972 after Cuban Missle Crisis became a full-blown war. Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them. "DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris's Fatherland. DuBois postulates an America that has been politically devastated by a nuclear exchange arising from the Cuban missile crisis. It's now 1972. Washington, D.C., is a radioactive crater; Nelson Rockefeller is running for president against George McGovern; and Boston Globe reporter Carl Landry is investigating the shooting death of a 60-year-old retired serviceman. Warned off the story after it gets spiked by the military's in-house censor, and emboldened by Sandra Price, a beautiful reporter from the London Times, Landry keeps digging at Swenson's past. What he uncovers is the truth behind the rumors of what…
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