From the Winner of the Michael Shaara and W. Y. Boyd Prizes for Fiction Comes a Riveting New Historical Thriller
This item will be released on February 4, 2025
The Harvard Murders
Robert J. Mrazek
Coming in February 2025
American landscape on the brink of war.
It’s the fall of 1937 and real-life Harvard roommates Jimmy Rousmaniere and Jack Kennedy have returned to Cambridge for their sophomore year. At nineteen, Jimmy is a superb athlete who lives for competition and is still innocent in the ways of the world. At twenty, JFK is charismatic, funny, intellectually curious, and already a natural leader. Having had the last rites read over him twice in his childhood, he now lives for the moment.
As the college year unfolds, and a national specter of war looms in the background, an act of hideous cruelty followed by the disappearance of a beautiful young Irish immigrant sets in motion a terrifying nightmare as Jimmy and Jack are forced to confront a predator who might live in their midst.
Bob Mrazek has written a thrilling tale of intrigue and murder at Harvard on the eve of World War II. You will be riveted and moved by a love story gone wrong and the role played by young John F. Kennedy-yes, that JFK, fictionalized but real and deftly drawn by the talented Mr. Mrazek.
Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and Road to War.
