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2) Jack 1939
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's spring, 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term, and he needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy, the attractive but unpromising second son of Roosevelt's ambassador to Britain, who is traveling through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis.
3) The blonde
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After young Norma Jean is turned into a famous movie star by a Soviet agent, she is asked to repay her debt by providing top secret information about the president, in this re-imagination of the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy.
4) Shift
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment, develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler's heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Chased across America by deadly forces in and out of government, will Chandler be able to harness his "shift" and rewrite history?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
It is October 1962. In Cuba, Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, a nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore, is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back channel liaison between...
Author
Publisher
Summer Ptree Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch...[W]hen President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before...Motherless preteen Ivy Jean Pritchard is a worrier, but she's trying hard not to be suspicious when her father sends her to spend the weekend on a ranch...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
The story of a secret service agent who made the fateful decision to remove the security bubble from Kennedy's parade car follows his struggles with suicidal feelings of guilt until a young reporter endeavors to determine the day's outcome if the bubbletop had been in place.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America--a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone. Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out. A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are actually planning, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy, a sickly and unpromising second son of Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, becomes embroiled in the President's high-stakes effort to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election.