About this item
Highlights
- Los Angeles, 1962.
- Author(s): Spencer Compton
- 216 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers
Description
Book Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1962. Dr. Wiley McCoy has a successful medical practice, movie-star good looks, and a substance abuse problem. When a young woman dies on his operating table, his life and career are destroyed. Romulo DaVinci is a conniving Voodoo shaman with supernatural powers to resurrect the dead. The disgraced doctor and the medical adventurer are thrown together on a gonzo journey through the seminal events of the 1960's including the JFK assassination, the Apollo moon landing, and the Manson killings. Along the way, they commandeer a U.S. nuclear submarine and encounter real-life characters from bonkers plutocrat Howard Hughes to ruthless Haitian leader Papa Doc Duvalier.
The Thresher Ghost is a carnival ride through a tumultuous decade--its music, its conspiracies and its scandals--as McCoy and DaVinci cross oceans and medical boundaries in a duel between science and magic.
Review Quotes
"A richly imagined weave of magical realism and period potboiler... an entertaining, atmospheric take on a bizarro version of the '60s." - Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful historical thriller... engrossing, mercurial, and hard to put down." - Midwest Book Review