Winter Kills [Hardcover]

Richard Condon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 19, 1974

In WINTER KILLS, Richard Condon probes one of the most significant events in America's 20th century: the assassination of a president. Timothy Kegan is shot in a Philadelphia motorcade; a presidential commission condemns a lone psychopath as the killer. Fourteen years later, Tim's half-brother, Nick, learns through a deathbed confession that Tim was the victim of a mysterious conspiracy. As Nick attempts to find the real assassin, he encounters oil kings, movie queens, venal police, organized crime, the CIA, and labor unions -- all eager for power and control. The ending is guaranteed to surprise and horrify!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; First edition (September 19, 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 029776764X
• ISBN-13: 978-0297767640
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,466,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Presidential Assassination Solved, June 12, 2007

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Acute Observer (N. Jersey Shore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winter Kills (Paperback)

This novel solves the assassination of "President Tim Kegan" during a motorcade in "Hunt Plaza". The details follow the very real assassination of JFK. Was this published too soon after the event? The House Select Committee later brought out many facts used by this novel, which explains the assassination as the revenge of organized crime. But it doesn't explain why the ruling circles covered up the assassination. Haven't corporate powers used organized crime to perform those actions which can't be done by lawyers and accountants?

One person in this book is "Lola Camonte", an international hostess and Washington lobbyist and fixer. Could this be a reference to the famous widow of a Governor? "President Kegan" asks her about appointing a member of organized crime to the Court of St. James. This could never happen in real life, could it? This book explains how the media is used to portray fiction as fact. (Remember how President Carter was cut off the air when he began to speak about the assassination of JFK in March 1977?)

When the assassination is planned, they order an independent team as back-up. Since the back-up team was not used they are quickly eliminated as potential witnesses. Many innocent bystanders, who saw more than they needed to know, are also eliminated. But this would never happen in read life, would it?

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, October 8, 2005

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L. Jenkins "Laurie-J" (Murchison, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winter Kills (Paperback)

In WINTER KILLS, Richard Condon probes one of the most significant events in America's 20th century: the assassination of a president. Timothy Kegan is shot in a Philadelphia motorcade; a presidential commission condemns a lone psychopath as the killer. Fourteen years later, Tim's half-brother, Nick, learns through a deathbed confession that Tim was the victim of a mysterious conspiracy. As Nick attempts to find the real assassin, he encounters oil kings, movie queens, venal police, organized crime, the CIA, and labor unions -- all eager for power and control. The ending is guaranteed to surprise and horrify!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars readable, September 7, 2001

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smitha (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winter Kills (Audio Cassette)

though the plot is complicated ... the book is enjoyable. Condon makes a complex plot of killing the president of USA. he sometimes confuses the reader.yet the book makes a good read and the climax is unexpected. ofcourse not one of the best of Condon.....