Autumn 1948 the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve Snap Malek is warned of a plan by an anti-Semitic group to assassinate the President because of his recognition of the new state of Israel. This hate group pressures Malek to give them publicity in the Tribune. He demurs, and the menacing organization, calling itself The New Reich, begins killing Chicagoans, one a day, including a policeman and a fireman. They threaten to kill more unless Malek writes about them, although their spokesman, contacting the reporter by phone, refuses his request for an in-person interview. Malek begins his dogged hunt for the people behind The New Reich, along the way meeting maverick automaker Preston Tucker and getting a chance to drive his revolutionary new car. Finally, one week before the election, Truman arrives in Chicago for a parade, and Malek comes face-to-face with the would-be assassin, laying his own life on the line in a desperate attempt to stifle the deadly plot.
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The 1948 presidential campaign is not going well for Harry Truman. With Dewey solidly ahead and third-party candidate Strom Thurmond expected to siphon off much of the traditionally Democratic southern vote, Truman’s prospects look dim. Snap Malek, a Truman backer, covers the police beat for Dewey’s most ardent media supporter, the Chicago Tribune. On a slow news day, Malek receives an anonymous call from a man representing the New Reich, an anti-Semitic group with plans to assassinate Truman on an upcoming Chicago campaign stop (Truman was the first world leader to officially recognize Israel). Malek immediately takes the information to his connection with the Chicago police. The plan is to keep the threat under wraps, but that gets tough when the group begins killing random citizens and demands that the Tribune give it a forum. The fourth Malek mystery builds on its base of detailed historical context and on Goldsborough’s 21 years of experience at the Tribune. Clever plotting and a well-developed protagonist close the deal. A solid historical series that deserves a wider audience. --Wes Lukowsky
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