{"product_id":"crooked-book-austin-grossman-9780316198523","title":"Crooked","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAward-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero: Richard Nixon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCrooked\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347891818769,"sku":"CIN0316198528G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53233285824785,"sku":"NIN9780316198523","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370645315857,"sku":"CIN0316198528VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316198528.jpg?v=1773318471","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/crooked-book-austin-grossman-9780316198523","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}