The Shot

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong PHILIP KERRx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;br / (Edimburgo, 1956 x{0026} x02013; Londres, 2018)x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;br / Autor que encontró la fórmula mágica de la novela negra histórica para un público exigente: poner toneladas de erudición al servicio de un personaje carismático y moralmente incólume, el detective Bernie Gunther, y filtrarlo todo por una óptica cínica. Cada título de la serie es una lección de un meticuloso experto en la República de Weimar, el Tercer Reich y la posguerra, y también un relato lleno de aventuras, humor negro y réplicas dignas de su admirado Philip Marlowe.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Ganador del Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca en 2009 por x{0026}lt;em Si los muertos no resucitanx{0026}lt;/em , también firmó diversos thrillers más allá de la serie Bernie Gunther, comox{0026}lt;em Plegarias, El arte del crimen, La paz de Hitler, Esaú, Una investigación filosóficax{0026}lt;/em ox{0026}lt;em Mercado de invierno.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/p