New York Times bestselling author In September, 1959 - at the height of the Cold War - Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev suddenly announces he wants to visit the United States. President Eisenhower, eager to defuse the mounting tension - and show the communist ruler the advantages of capitalism - agrees to the history-making trip. Khrushchev has only two demands: he wants to see Disneyland . . . and Marilyn Monroe. He was, for security reasons, refused his first request; the second request, meeting Hollywood's blonde ...
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New York Times bestselling author In September, 1959 - at the height of the Cold War - Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev suddenly announces he wants to visit the United States. President Eisenhower, eager to defuse the mounting tension - and show the communist ruler the advantages of capitalism - agrees to the history-making trip. Khrushchev has only two demands: he wants to see Disneyland . . . and Marilyn Monroe. He was, for security reasons, refused his first request; the second request, meeting Hollywood's blonde bombshell, was arranged. . . . Marilyn, aware of an attempt to assassinate Khrushchev at the Beverly Hills Hotel, has only hours to convince Jack Harrigan - a stubborn State Department agent in charge of the premier - of the covert plot which would unquestionably launch the two superpowers into World War III. When Harrigan at first refuses to take her seriously, Marilyn takes it upon herself to rescue the famous Russian, spiriting him away for a midnight visit to the theme park he longs to see. At once an historical novel, espionage thriller, and comic mystery, Bombshell accomplishes something few books on these two icons of the 20th century manage: to bring to life the great star and the Russian dictator as real people . . . human, flawed, and, in their own individual ways, heroic. Max Allan Collins - author of the New York Times bestseller Road to Perdition, has been acclaimed as "the master of true-crime fiction" by Chicago Magazine and Publishers Weekly. His wife, Barbara Collins, is one of the most respected short-story writers in the mystery field and has been called "a latter day Roald Dahl" by Mystery Scene. Barbara and Max live in Muscatine, Iowa.
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