Gods of Deception: A Novel - Hardcover

Adams Cleveland, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626349185 ISBN 13: 9781626349186

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group LLC, 2022

Synopsis

At age ninety-five, Judge Edward Dimock, patriarch of his family and the man who defended Alger Hiss in the famous 1950 Cold War "trial of the century," is writing his memoir at his Catskill retreat, Stanford White's fabled Hermitage. Judge Dimock is consumed with the troubling secrets he's held for over fifty years-secrets that might change American history and the lives of his entire family. Was his client guilty of spying for Stalin or not? And if guilty, did Hiss's crimes go far beyond his perjury conviction? Dimock enlists his grandson, George Altmann, a brilliant Princeton astrophysicist, in the quest for truth. George soon finds clues that point to Hiss's guilt, a series of suspicious deaths of potential witnesses, and the secrets of the Dimock family-deceptive entanglements that have ravaged the clan and the nation. In Gods of Deception, acclaimed novelist David Adams Cleveland has created a thrilling tale of espionage, a family saga, a stirring love story, and a meditation on time and memory, astrophysics and art, taking you on an unforgettable journey into the troubled human heart as well as the past-a past that is ever present, where the gods of deception await our distant call.

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About the Author

David Adams Cleveland is a novelist and art historian. His previous novel, Time's Betrayal, was awarded Best Historical Novel of 2017 by Reading the Past. Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler called Time's Betrayal "a vast, rich, endlessly absorbing novel engaging with the great and enduring theme of literary art, the quest for identity." Bruce Olds, two-time Pulitzer-nominated author, described Time's Betrayal as a "monumental work . . . in a league of its own and class by itself . . . a large-hearted American epic that deserves the widest possible, most discriminating of readerships." In summer 2014, his second novel, Love's Attraction, became the top-selling hardback fiction for Barnes & Noble in New England. Fictionalcities.uk included Love's Attraction on its list of top novels for 2013.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group LLC
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1626349185
• ISBN 13: 9781626349186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 928