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Crooked
Crooked | Austin Grossman
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AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST AUSTIN GROSSMAN REIMAGINES THE COLD WAR AS AN EPIC BATTLE AGAINST THE OCCULT WAGED BY THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN ANTIHERO--RICHARD NIXON. Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all? Here for the first time is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up. What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest? In Crooked, Nixon finally reveals the secret history of modern American politics as only Austin Grossman could reimagine it. Combining Lovecraftian suspense, international intrigue, Russian honey traps, and a presidential marriage whose secrets and battles of attrition were their own heroic saga, Grossman's novel is a masterwork of alternative history, equal parts mesmerizing character study and nail-biting Faustian thriller.
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The.Intentional.Reader
Crooked | Austin Grossman
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Found this for $1! Grossman is another of my favorite. Love his stuff

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Oblomov26
Crooked | Austin Grossman
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I will not say too much about this book except that it presented an interesting picture of Nixon, intelligent and politically savvy, but also weak, self-loathing and very flexible morality. What is different about this story is when he gets to Washington and finds an different level of reality where the dark gods play an active role and things do go bump in the night. I enjoyed this book, but I found myself wanting more background, more details.

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Oblomov26
Crooked | Austin Grossman
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Another lunchtime, another bookshop, some more books for the TBR pile. But a novel about Richard Nixon fighter of the dark things seeking to take over the world and a history of Reynald de Chatillon one of the great and terrible crusader lords a man known for his violence and cruelty in a time when such behavior was commonplace; Sold take my money

BekahB I just bought Crooked a couple weeks ago. I'm excited to read it! The plot sounds interesting. 8y
Oblomov26 @BekahB agree - I love history behind the history styled novels and the premise of this one - what if Nixon was actually a hero 8y
Craftylikefox I keep almost getting Crooked. It sounds crazy and great. 8y
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