Austin Grossman: Crooked (2015)
355 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2015
"Reimagines the cold war as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero--Richard Nixon" --
What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? Richard Milhous Nixon faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. Here for the first time-- in his own words-- the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up. What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest?
"Strategic alliances with folkloric, extraplanar, and subterranean entities. Field deployment of weaponized paleofauna. Large-scale saturation of target areas with invasive fungal and floral xeno organisms.
This is the Cold War now."
Holistically flawed, but I really enjoy Grossman's writing. A couple of phrases in here that are simply beautiful.
