Beat the Devils

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller, shortlisted for the Sidewise Award, with "palpable emotional depth" ( New York Times  Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended. USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed anti‑Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's