{"product_id":"9781538719459-beat-the-devils","title":"Beat the Devils","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis inventive, page-turning crime thriller with \"palpable emotional depth\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA, 1958.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAPD 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 director, and an up-and-coming young journalist named Walter Cronkite. Clutched in the hand of one of the dead men is a cryptic note containing the phrase \"beat the devils\" followed by a single name: Baker. Did the two men die in an attack fuelled by better-dead-than-red sentiment, as the Hueys are quick to conclude, or were they murdered in a cover-up designed to protect-or even set in motion-a secret plot connected to Baker's past?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a country where terror grows stronger by the day, and paranoia rises unchecked, Baker is determined to find justice for two men who raised their voices in a time when free speech comes at the ultimate cost. In the course of his investigation, Baker stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of power and uncovers a secret that could destroy the City of Angels-and the American ideal itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809085436001,"sku":"9781538719459","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40565764_46b2acef-cd5d-4f30-965a-499a7f0c2286.jpg?v=1775079991","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781538719459-beat-the-devils","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}