Description
Drawing on
new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of
America's Camelot. For a time, John F. Kennedy ran the US and the world like a
player with loaded dice. All his life, he expected to be serviced. For most,
sex is an optional side order; for JFK, it was demanded: a manifestation of his
majesty, his power, a display of entitlement and godlike behaviour - the
resulting mess was for others to clean up. For the Kennedy men, beginning with
prolific philanderer Joe Kennedy Senior, risk was a turn-on.
As another Kennedy, Bobby Junior - son of a would-be
president, nephew of another - runs for the White House,
Reckless reveals
how a dynasty's arrogance led to tragedy.
Drawing on new interviews and previously protected police and
US government intelligence files - tens of thousands of documents from the Los
Angeles Police Department's Organised Crime Intelligence Division, the CIA and
the FBI, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal quite how tarnished America's Camelot
was.
The files corroborate how the Kennedys connived with the
American Mafia, greedy corporations and Latin American tyrants to gain and hold
power. All the usual suspects from FBI titan J. Edgar Hoover and billionaire
Howard Hughes to CIA rogue agents and Mob hitmen appear in an narrative which
sweeps from the salons of Washington to dictator Rafael Trujillo's torture
chambers in the Dominican Republic (where a dwarf called Snowball specialised
in biting off men's genitals).
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