Publisher's Synopsis
It is 21 September, 1959. The world's number-one Communist, Nikita Krushchev, has landed in Iowa during the height of the McCarthy era and in Black River Falls someone has resorted to painting the town murderously red. A high-profile writer, with Communist sympathies and a very jealous wife, turns up dead at the office of private eye and lawyer Sam McCain. Everyone - including McCain's sometime boss - believes it was the victim's politics that got him killed. But McCain isn't convinced - especially when his two suspects also turn up dead within the next twenty-four hours...
