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Corruption of Blood (1996)

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0451181964 (ISBN13: 9780451181961)
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THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLYPersonal note, finished it by barely. Finished but can't even remember how it ended now. I finished it, so a '2'**************Could have been so good but no. I couldn't even get through the first 20 pages without being annoyed!!****************This novel really didn't do much for me, the cover claims "his most enthralling legal thriller to date" and I have to say after reading this I dare not read the early ones if this is the peak of excitement offered by the author.The story is implausible at best - Butch Karp, a New York Assistant DA, is hired by a newly formed Congressional Committee to find out who assassinated John F Kennedy; from here the story goes down hill, slowly and methodically for 300 pages becoming more and more implausible with secret assassins, ongoing conspiracies and Congressional backstabbing. The last 100 pages is moderately more interesting but I wouldn't go so far as to say 'enthralling'. Not helping the experience was the book itself, Signet in all their cost saving wisdom made this mass market paperback edition more narrow and compressed the text blocks more than normal to save paper. The result is a book that is slightly awkward to hold and requires more force than usual to hold open due to the lack of leverage on the narrower expanse. If you are determined to read this novel, I would highly recommend steering clear of the Signet mass market paperback edition. (

If you read the first two (2) paragraphs under the entry of "Warren Commission" @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_C..., you'll discover one of the chief concerns about the creation of the investigation into the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, was that "a commission would ultimately create more controversy than consensus, and those fears proved valid." Corruption of Blood is a novel of a possible theory and it's even more breathtaking from page-to-page as the star is our dearly loved Karp and the loves of his life (wife & daughter). Then there's the incredible remembrance that the author, Robert K. Tanenbaum was Deputy Chief Counsel to the Congressional Committee Investigation into the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. AND then you just keep wondering...Is it really a novel?Don't start this book before bedtime like I did and then expect to get sleep! You have to stay awake and keep reading!

What do You think about Corruption Of Blood (1996)?

The next in the series I've been following for the last several months, this one involving a reopening of the investigation of the JFK assassination. I was a little wary that this couldn't possibly work, and despite Herculean efforts by the real writer Michael Gruber, it didn't. The characters were just as engaging as in the other books in the series, and the legal and political difficulties were just as complicated and, as far as I can tell, realistic. And there is an author's note that says the solution is consistent with all the facts uncovered by the congressional investigation for which Tanenbaum really was legal counsel. (Needless to say, Oswald didn't do it.) But overall it was a bit unsatisfying, since it didn't really involve a prosecution. As the main character says, there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute anybody in 1963, and there's even less fifteen years later. And while the bad guys got discovered and dealt with to some degree, there was a sense of futility about the whole enterprise that left me unsatisfied. I was amazed to learn that "corruption of blood" is a phrase found in the U.S. Constitution, that the only crime explicitly defined there is treason, and that assassinating the president doesn't fit the definition.
—Jon

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