Crooked [Paperback]

Acclaimed novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the ultimate American antihero.

Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, theMad Mensixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all?

Here for the first time is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, and the truth behind the Cold War. What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest? Combining Lovecraftian suspense and international intrigue,Crookedis a masterwork of alternative history, equal parts mesmerizing character study and nail-biting Faustian thriller.Austin Grossmanis a novelist and game designer. His novels includeSoon I Will Be Invincible, YOU,andCrooked. Soon I Will Be Invinciblewas nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has also appeared inGranta,theWall Street Journal,and theNew York Times.His major game credits include System Shock, Deus Ex, Dishonored, and Dishonored 2. He is currently Director of Game Design and Interactive Storytelling at Magic Leap. Ingenious ... every moment [is] perfectly motivated ... more believable than the truth. CROOKED works as gleeful satire, as wacky alternate history, and as a thriller, but what really shines is the character study at its center. Neil Hollands,Library Journal(starred review) Crookedconfirms and details the extremely esoteric and occult presence we always suspected lay at the heart of the Nixon administration. It's got spies, and political intrigue, and a sitting Presidel3