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"Reimagines the cold war as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero--Richard Nixon" --
What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? Richard Milhous Nixon faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. Here for the first time-- in his own words-- the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up. What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest?
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Crooked by Austin Grossman is a fictionalised autobiography of Richard Nixon. I should say EXTREMELY fictionalised – there is far more eldritch Lovecraftian horror here than in most political biographies. This Nixon is introduced to the fight against ancient cosmic malevolence and the magickal properties of the POTUS's seal by Eisenhower, and allies with the thousand year old Bavarian sorcerer Henry Kissinger to combat the Soviet weaponisation of occult horrors from another reality. Terrific fun, and more enjoyable than Charles Stross' similarly themed Laundry novels, but doesn't quite stick the landing.
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