Before DeLillo's Libra or Oliver Stone's JFK, there was The Tears of Autumn, Charles McCarry's unnervingly plausible account of the story behind the Kennedy assassination.
The Tears of Autumn is an incisive study of power and a brilliant commentary on the force of illusion, the grip of superstition, and the overwhelming strength of family in the affairs of nations. It's also a superb political thriller, taut and unsentimental, whose brilliantly original and persuasive theory about who killed Kennedy will, once again, get minds racing.
