A supposedly unique video of Hitler's sexual antics is a desirable commodity for a variety of people. Lightborne, an ageing dealer in all art forms of a perverted nature, claims to have access to the tape and makes contact with the interested parties. By the author of Americana .
It's a stunningly day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire. He finds Manhattan city at standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral which is proceeding through town, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Eric's bodyguards are worried that he is a target and, indeed, he is.
A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy. It chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history.