A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the twentieth century's most controversial murder investigation. Late one afternoon in the spring of 2008, the phone rang at Philip Shenon's desk in the Washington bureau of the New York Times . The caller was a prominent American lawyer who had begun his career almost half a century earlier as a young staff investigator on the Warren Commission. "You ought to tell our story," he said. "We're not young, but a lot of us from the commission are still around, and this may be our last chance to explain what really happened." And so began a five-year reporting project to piece together the inside story of the most important, and most misunderstood, homicide investigation of the twentieth century. What the book quickly became, however, is something much larger: Shenon discovered that much of the truth about the president's assassination had still not been told, and that much evidence was covered up or destroyed-shredded, incinerated, or erased-by the CIA, the FBI, and others in power in Washington. A taut, page-turning narrative, Shenon's book features some of the most compelling figures in modern American history-Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J.

Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's treacherous "mole hunter," James Jesus Angleton. Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving commission staffers and many key players, Philip Shenon's authoritative, scrupulously researched book will forever change the way we think about the Kennedy assassination and about the deeply flawed investigation that followed.