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We love a mystery/thriller that oozes film noir. Think James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential, but set in an alternative universe. Here, the names have NOT been changed to protect the innocent, just the circumstances in which they’re involved. Sometimes it takes the past reimagined to think about the present.

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller, shortlisted for the Sidewise Award, with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended.

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 Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision ...