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Title: Expected historical fiction, got quasi-military thriller
Review: I wasn't familiar with this author, but heard an interview where he discussed this book. He mentioned that he reconstructed the last few months of FDR's actual life to see how an assassination attempt might have fit in fictionally. It sounded like the focus of the book was FDR's last days, with an assassination plot woven in. Just the kind of historical fiction I'd be interested in.However, I've read over 60 pages and am giving it up. FDR has barely been mentioned. The dialogue and description have a modern flavor, rather than putting you back in the 1940's. There are none of the details of everyday life one would expect in historical fiction. The guns described in an early chapter almost have more personality than the human characters.It is what it is, probably a good thriller if that's what you're into. But if you heard the same misleading interview I did, you ought to know that's what it is.
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