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To Kill the Truth (Maggie Costello, #4)
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To Kill The Truth – A Thriller For Our Times
To Kill The Truth is the latest thriller from the writer Sam Bourne/Jonathan Freedland, and his latest book reflects back in our faces the America of now. This really is a thriller for our times, considering the ‘false news’ narrative that runs large at the moment. As a historian there is a chilling narrative of denial of the facts, such as Holocaust denial, around today, and this kind of narrative runs throughout the book.
Maggie Costello is trying to keep a low profile, having recently left her position at the White House, as a trouble shooter for the President. She just wants to unwind, relax and attempt to move on. But her friend and former colleague, now the Governor of Virginia needs her help.
The is a civil action taking place in a court room in Richmond, Virginia, where the charismatic William Keane, historian and becoming a hero to the new alt-right was suing the African-American Susan Liston for libel. He was arguing that a paragraph accusing him of being a slavery denier. His argument was that he could not be denier as people had never been slaves in the United States.
There are some hackers on Melia Island in the middle of Montana hacking systems collecting and filing data. While somewhere in the world fire systems are being hacked and some of the great repositories of historical documents are burning. The Great libraries around the world were on fire and the documents they provided was being reduced to ash. Of course, this work had been backed up digitally, but some how this too has disappeared.
Maggie Costello working alongside the FBI are racing against time to find who is trying to destroy history before their very eyes. While at the same time Maggie is being attacked herself, more so the closer she gets to the truth. Maggie has remembered the old saying follow the money, and she hopes that this will reveal the truth.
A fantastic thriller with a nod to what is happening today around the world especially with false news and more. An excellent reminder that we should not take history for granted.
To Kill The Truth is the latest thriller from the writer Sam Bourne/Jonathan Freedland, and his latest book reflects back in our faces the America of now. This really is a thriller for our times, considering the ‘false news’ narrative that runs large at the moment. As a historian there is a chilling narrative of denial of the facts, such as Holocaust denial, around today, and this kind of narrative runs throughout the book.
Maggie Costello is trying to keep a low profile, having recently left her position at the White House, as a trouble shooter for the President. She just wants to unwind, relax and attempt to move on. But her friend and former colleague, now the Governor of Virginia needs her help.
The is a civil action taking place in a court room in Richmond, Virginia, where the charismatic William Keane, historian and becoming a hero to the new alt-right was suing the African-American Susan Liston for libel. He was arguing that a paragraph accusing him of being a slavery denier. His argument was that he could not be denier as people had never been slaves in the United States.
There are some hackers on Melia Island in the middle of Montana hacking systems collecting and filing data. While somewhere in the world fire systems are being hacked and some of the great repositories of historical documents are burning. The Great libraries around the world were on fire and the documents they provided was being reduced to ash. Of course, this work had been backed up digitally, but some how this too has disappeared.
Maggie Costello working alongside the FBI are racing against time to find who is trying to destroy history before their very eyes. While at the same time Maggie is being attacked herself, more so the closer she gets to the truth. Maggie has remembered the old saying follow the money, and she hopes that this will reveal the truth.
A fantastic thriller with a nod to what is happening today around the world especially with false news and more. An excellent reminder that we should not take history for granted.
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March 13, 2019
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March 13, 2019
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