What really happened on November 22, 1963 and immediately after? Just recently there were reports
of a tape transcript – since dismissed as a fake – having surfaced, supposedly from a meeting between Ruby and Oswald at Ruby's nightclub on October 4, 1963 in which they talk of killing the president.
Set in the present day, Robert O. Greer’s sixth C.J. Floyd mystery The Mongoose Deception drags the reluctant Black bail bondsman turned Western collectibles dealer detective back through time into the JFK assassination.
An earthquake which damages the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel in Colorado reveals the corpse of Antoine Ducane, who had hinted that he knew the truth behind the murder and then disappeared in the 1970s.
The discovery sets off a chain of violent events that soon involve Floyd and take him all the way from the crisp and clear mountains of Colorado to the muggy swamps of Louisiana.
Greer provides us with flashbacks to mobsters Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello discussing the need to kill the president.
Another treat for conspiracy buffs – less vintage in nature – is Tom Cain’s The Accident Man.
One summer night in 1997, hired assassin Samuel Carver is positioned in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit on a dangerous terrorist.
After causing a speeding black Mercedes – in which he believes his target to be the passenger – to smash into a stone pillar, he realizes that he has caused the death of Princess Diana.
He vows revenge on those who set him up and must work his way through the assassin underground while being pursued by the very forces that hired him.
Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning British journalist [David Thomas] with a twenty-five-year history of investigative reporting. The Accident Man is his first novel.
