Beat the Devils Audiobook Libro.fm

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This inventive pageturning crime thriller with palpable emotional depth New York TimesBook 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 andbarelyconcealedantiSemitism The country is in the firm grip of McCarthysHueys a secret police force evolved from the House UnAmerican Activities Committee Hollywoods sparkling vision of the American dream has beensuppressedits remaining talents forced to turn outendlessanticommunist propaganda

LAPD detectiveMorris BakeraHolocaustsurvivor who drowns his fractured memories of the unspeakable in schnapps and workis called to the scene of a horrific doublehomicide The victims are John Huston aoncepromisingbut now forgotten film director and an upandcoming young journalist named Walter Cronkite Clutched in the hand of one of the dead men is a cryptic note containing the phrase beat thedevils followed by a singlename Baker Did the two men die in an attack fueled by betterdeadthanred sentiment as theHueysare quick to conclude or were they murdered in a coverup designed to protector even set in motiona secret plot connected to Bakers past

In a country where terrorgrows stronger by the day and paranoiarisesunchecked Baker is determined to find justice for two men who raised their voices in a time when free speech comes at the ultimate costIn the course ofhis investigation Baker stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls ofpower anduncovers asecretthat could destroy the City of Angelsand the American ideal itself