Winter Kills

Richard Condon

Pa had two sons by different wives, an immense corporation, limitless influence and bottomless ambition. Nick, the youngest son, made his own way in oil because the oil business produced the kind of wealth his father respected – and because it kept him fifteen thousand miles between them. Tim, the eldest, was Pa’s achievement. Tim was President and a hero to the nation – until cut down by a communist bullet in a motorcade in Philadelphia in 1960. Fourteen years later, Nick is lifted off a rig in the South China Sea to be told that his brother was the victim of a conspiracy. And hears himself promising to find out the truth and see that justice is done.