Crooked

by Austin Grossman

This is the story of the great con game that was the late twentieth century, of American history's worst presidency, of how I learned to lie. It is not history as you know it. There are at least three sides to this story, and I'm telling both of mine.

I promise you I will show the same contempt for the historical record that it has shown for me.

My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and I have seen the devil walk.

An alternate history, a horror novel, a political satire and a study of what people will sacrifice to succeed, CROOKED is the ultimate inside story of the strange, all-too-human monsters at the heart of American power.

• ISBN10: 1444729993
• ISBN13: 9781444729993
• Publish Date: 30 July 2015 (first published 28 July 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Mulholland Books
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[ayla_abbott]

In the end, I wished there were more dark horrors. But it portrayed the way we often just do stupid stuff without really having a great reason. Then get caught up. It had that great understated pace of some of the more sedate lovecraftian stuff. The dark things are left unstated, but still have weight.