6/30/2023 0 Comments The Shot by Philip Kerr![]() ![]() Cubans have fled in their thousands to Florida, while the American government looks across the waters for signs of Russian influence over the fledgling state.Ĭentral to the story of The Shot is an American assassin who calls himself Tom Jefferson. Just a hundred miles or so from the tip of the Florida peninsula lies the island of Cuba, but its traditional role as puppet state of America, complete with Mafia-owned casinos, sex clubs and hedonistic lifestyles came to an end in 1958 when communist rebels, led by Fidel Castro, finally overturned the regime of Fulgencio Batista. ![]() In the pop charts, The Drifters were singing Save The Last Dance For Me, and a youthful looking senator called John Fitzgerald Kennedy had just won the election to become the thirty-fifth President of The United States. ![]() We are in America and it is the late autumn of 1960. Quercus has just republished The Shot, a 1999 novel by Kerr. I read one such – Hitler’s Peace – earlier this year and if you click the link it will take you to the review. ![]() Kerr, however, was good enough – and confident enough – to write superior stand-alone novels. The late Philip Kerr is justifiably renowned for his magisterial series of fourteen historical books featuring the sardonic German copper Bernie Gunther. ![]()
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