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A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination
Random House
October 2013
On Sale: October 8, 2013
208 pages
ISBN: 1400069165
EAN: 9781400069163
Kindle: B00CCPIJDG
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Thriller | Mystery
In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history’s
great “what ifs,” Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men
haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy’s
assassination.
November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas,
ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get
the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy’s motorcade.
Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or
down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van
Walters. The decision to leave the top down and expose JFK
to fire from above will weigh on Van’s conscience for
decades. But will it also change the course of history?
Five years after the assassination, Jack gets an anguished
phone call from Van’s daughter Marti. Van Walters is ravaged
by guilt, so convinced that his actions led to JFK’s death
that he has lost the will to live. In a desperate bid to
deliver her father from his demons, Marti enlists Jack’s
help in a risky reenactment designed to prove once and for
all what would have happened had the bubble top stayed in
place on that grim November day.
For Jack, it’s a chance to break a once-in-a-lifetime story
that could make his career. But for Van the stakes are even
higher. The outcome of a ballistics test conducted on the
grounds of a secluded estate in upstate New York might just
save his life—or push him over the edge.
A page-turning historical novel with the beating heart of a
thriller, Top Down could only have sprung from the fertile
imagination of Jim Lehrer. Drawing on his own experience as
an eyewitness to the events described, one of America’s most
respected journalists has crafted an engrossing story out of
the emotional aftershocks of a national tragedy.
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