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Lee Harvey Oswald drifts from the Bronx to the Marines to Minsk to Dallas while a group of disaffected CIA men plan a staged attempt on Kennedy that is meant to miss.
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American Tabloid
Three men, an FBI agent, his protégé and a mob enforcer, move through the Bay of Pigs, the Mafia and the Kennedys' rise in the years before Dallas, in Ellroy's paranoid epic.
Underworld
A panoramic Cold War novel that begins with a lost baseball and Bobby Thomson's home run and spirals through decades of American paranoia, waste, and longing.
The Book of Daniel
Daniel Isaacson, the son of a couple executed for spying in the 1950s, struggles in the late 1960s with their memory, his sister's breakdown and his own anger, in Doctorow's novel based on the Rosenberg case.
The Twenty-Seventh City
St. Louis's new police chief, a former Bombay officer, quietly takes over the city through a conspiracy of influence, blackmail and real estate, and only one civic leader resists.
The Lacuna
Harrison Shepherd, born in America and raised in Mexico, works as a cook in the household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and then as secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile.
Bleeding Edge
A fraud investigator in post-9/11 New York discovers that the tech startup she's examining may be connected to something far more dangerous than financial crime.
The Crying of Lot 49
A woman in 1960s California follows the trail of a secret postal system that may or may not exist, in a novel about communication, paranoia, and America's buried histories.
Mao II
A reclusive novelist lets a photographer take his picture and is drawn out of hiding into a scheme to free a young poet held hostage in Beirut.
Asymmetry
Two stories that seem unconnected, a young editor's affair with a much older, famous writer and an Iraqi-American economist held at Heathrow airport, turn out to speak to each other.
HHhH
The story of the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust, by two Czechoslovak parachutists, told by a narrator who keeps questioning whether history can be faithfully reconstructed.
The Passenger
In 1980, Bobby Western, a salvage diver in New Orleans, dives on a crashed private jet and finds that one passenger is missing, and soon men in suits come asking questions, while he is haunted by his brilliant dead sister.
The Secrets We Kept
In 1956 the CIA recruits Irina, a young Russian-American typist, to work alongside Sally, an experienced agent, on a plan to smuggle Boris Pasternak's banned Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union.