Award-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an
epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero:
Richard Nixon.
Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the
twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career
spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the
turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and
ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to
a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning
question: how could he have lost it all?
Here for the first time is the tale told in his own words: the
terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the
truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up.
What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure
caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from
another reality? What if the man we call our worst president was, in
truth, our greatest?
In Crooked, Nixon finally reveals the secret history of modern
American politics as only Austin Grossman could reimagine it. Combining
Lovecraftian suspense, international intrigue, Russian honey traps, and
a presidential marriage whose secrets and battles of attrition were
their own heroic saga, Grossman's novel is a masterwork of alternative
history, equal parts mesmerizing character study and nail-biting
Faustian thriller.
