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Plume
May 2013
On Sale: April 30, 2013
336 pages ISBN: 0142196789 EAN: 9780142196786 Kindle: B0073XV5HE Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the worldΓ’β¬β’s most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom. There he discovers The Book of SecretsΓ’β¬βMarilyn MonroeΓ’β¬β’s diaryΓ’β¬βrevealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as Γ’β¬ΕThe General.Γ’β¬Β In the following days, Ben unravels a cover-up that implicates the Kennedys, the Mafia, and the CIA. Soon the sinister and surreal accounts recorded in The Book bleed into BenΓ’β¬β’s own life, and he finds himself trappedΓ’β¬βlike MonroeΓ’β¬βin a deepening paranoid conspiracy. A knockout combination of fact and legend, The Empty Glass is a riveting debut thriller.
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