Dan Bridger is a professional thief who works alone and tries to live an uncomplicated life. But things get complicated when he gets a call from a woman in Seattle, who tells him his brother has been murdered. His younger brother, Seth -- the good brother, who always kept his nose clean. Seth was a probation and parole officer, shot to death in a parking lot. The local police dismiss it as another gang killing. If Bridger wants answers, he's going...

"The title of this nail-biter is a deceiver. Yes, it's the Kennedys, here called the McCormacks, and, yes, it's the sixties, here called the seventies. An alternate universe like ours, but not. This president, aglow with Hollywood glamour, gets to live out two terms. His kid brother, the hard-edged one, gets a term of his own. The funhouse distortions continue. The Vietnam War, once popular and eagerly boosted by the brothers, is so out of favor it's...