Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog - Posts Tagged "assassination"

So, 50 years ago, the president was assassinated. You may have heard.

I figured for my Goodreads audience, I would go ahead and tell y'all about my favorite book on the JFK assassination. And it's not non-fiction -- it's a novel. It's made up.

I think...

See, the book is Corruption of Blood by Robert K. Tanenbaum. It's a terrific legal thriller, about a NYC DA who is assigned temporarily to help investigate the JFK assassination. It's well-written, impeccably paced, and has some great character work, to boot. I've been a fan of Tanenbaum's since high school. (Hell, his first novel made me want to be a prosecutor! How different would that have been?)

But more than that... Tanenbaum also served as a lawyer for the House Select Committee on Assassinations! Which...investigated the JFK assassination! So, he brings a wee bit of experience and insight to a novel on that subject. And while Corruption of Blood is a novel, given its provenance, it's not too "out there," I don't think, to wonder how much of it is very, very thinly disguised fiction.

Check it out! You'll enjoy it, I'm sure.