Beat the Devils

✍ Scribed by Josh Weiss

• Book ID: 110570914
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 256 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781538719435

✦ Synopsis

An inventive, page-turning crime thriller set in an alternate United States during the height of the Red Scare--with shocking parallels to America in the 2020s.
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 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...