Last Man at Arlington

"Last Man At Arlington" is a tightly muscled and unflinching thriller. Six low level Kennedy administration operatives are targeted for murder by a mad man on the tenth anniversary of the assasination. One of the intended victims, George Williams, now a justice department agent is locked in a life and death struggle to find the killer before it is too late. The book plays out like a deadly chess game and the superb author Joe DiMona takes the reader on an incredibly tense journey into the mind of the killer. "Last Man At Arlington" originally published in 1973, seems to have served as the inspiration for Oliver Stones' "JFK" and Clint Eastwoods' "In the Line of Fire". Arlington brings to life a swinging seventies world but terror is never far from the surface. Few books in memory sustain the same level of suspense and as intensely drawn characters and situations. The George Williams character, a sort of James Bond meets Blackford Oakes, appears in two other equally grand novels, "Benedict Arnold Connection" and "To the Eagles' Nest". "Last Man" is a big book replete with rather stunning insigths into a programmed killers mind. Think Sinatra in "Suddenly" or "Laurence Harvey in the "Manchurian Candidate" mixed with Joe DiMona's encyclopedic grasp of cultural detail, and you have a book of extraordinary reach. Really a must!