Print the Legend

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CRAIG McDONALD's debut, Head Games, a relentlessly slick and action-packed literary-caper novel, was shortlisted for the Edgar, Anthony, Crimespree, and Gumshoe awards for Best First Novel. With Print the Legend, McDonald exceeds the extraordinary promise of his debut, delivering a consummate mystery about a conspiracy gone wrong, and the outer edges of creative jealousy and obsessive revenge.
It was the shot heard around the world: On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway died from a shotgun blast to the head four years later, two men have come to Idaho to confront the widow Hemingway—men who have doubts about the circumstances of Hemingway's death. One is crime novelist Hector Lassiter, the oldest and best of Hem's friends the last man standing of the Lost Generation. Hector has heard rumors of some surviving Hemingway manuscripts allegedly written by a deluded Hemingway. The other man is Professor Richard Paulson, who along with his pregnant wife, Hannah, herself an aspiring writer,... Tovább

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CRAIG McDONALD's debut, Head Games, a relentlessly slick and action-packed literary-caper novel, was shortlisted for the Edgar, Anthony, Crimespree, and Gumshoe awards for Best First Novel. With Print the Legend, McDonald exceeds the extraordinary promise of his debut, delivering a consummate mystery about a conspiracy gone wrong, and the outer edges of creative jealousy and obsessive revenge.
It was the shot heard around the world: On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway died from a shotgun blast to the head four years later, two men have come to Idaho to confront the widow Hemingway—men who have doubts about the circumstances of Hemingway's death. One is crime novelist Hector Lassiter, the oldest and best of Hem's friends the last man standing of the Lost Generation. Hector has heard rumors of some surviving Hemingway manuscripts allegedly written by a deluded Hemingway. The other man is Professor Richard Paulson, who along with his pregnant wife, Hannah, herself an aspiring writer, is bent on proving that Mary Hemingway murdered Papa. Hector is strongly drawn to the spirited, formidable Hannah, and he senses sinister forces gathering around the Paulsons as well. As Hector digs into the mystery of Hemingway's lost writings, he uncovers an audacious, decades-long conspiracy tied to the emergent art movements of 1920's Paris, the most duplic-itous of Cold War espionage tactics, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI a scheme to discredit and destroy not only authors but the very craft of literature itself. Vissza