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This one has a fascinating premise. Set in Dallas in 1963, the book covers five days, from November 20 through November 25. It involves the off-camera activities of several residents of the city who were involved one way or another in the calamitous assassination of the President of the United States. Yet, this is not another book about that calamitous event. This is the story of one dying homicide detective of the Dallas, Texas, Police Department, who is assigned to track down the murderer of an antique and rare book dealer of the city, one Jennings Price. He is murdered and then left in a particularly hideous manner. Detective Ray Duval has other troubles. He's dying. Doctors have given him less than a year to live and he knows that he won't pass his upcoming police physical. He'd like to solve this last murder before he ends his career. The pending visit of the president is merely a distraction. Duval goes home to see his father and older brother in a town several miles north of Dallas. He knows this is probably the last time he will ever see these people and he'd like to settle a few resentments with his family. While he's there a chance remark about several 30-year-old killings of small girls, triggers a connection to the murder of Price. Through the rest of the book Duval battles indifference, racial attitudes, the shooting of the president and his own dwindling strength in a last attempt to find a monstrous killer and save one life before the end of his own. A powerful, teeth-grinding and supremely suspenseful thriller that touches the nerve endings of anyone with an interest in good writing, good stories, recent history and the mystery genre.
Reviewed by Carl Brookins, January 2004
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