Tim Baker
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Tim Baker

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Born in Sydney, Tim Baker lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he wrote about jazz. He has worked on film projects in India, China, Mexico, Brazil and Australia, and currently lives in the South of France with his wife, their son, and two rescue animals, a dog and a cat. His debut novel, the JFK-themed neo-noir conspiracy thriller, FEVER CITY, was published in 2016 and went on to be shortlisted for the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger award as well as being nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Award for best first novel. His new novel, an epic narco-thriller set in Mexico in 2000, CITY WITHOUT STARS, is out now. Praise for FEVER CITY Some fine novels have explored the assassination (of JFK) including Stephen King’s “11/22/63” . . . To this list we can now add Tim Baker’s remarkable first novel “Fever City.” Baker tells his story in three related plots set in 1960, 1963 and 2014, and he constantly moves back and forth among them. Keeping up can be a challenge, but it’s one repaid by inspired writing, memorable characters and an exhilarating, all but overpowering story . . . “Fever City” delights in sex, hypocrisy and political conspiracy, but finally it’s about a tragedy that reverberates down through the years – Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post This is a novel packed with tough-guy poetry, deeply felt emotions and startling images . . . The story twists and turns at speed like the famous ‘magic bullet’ that may or may not have killed the president . . . A superb debut novel. A direct hit – Jeff Noon, The Spectator, UK In this ambitious debut, Baker gives us a bare-knuckle take on the president’s murder and adds two other plotlines, connecting them solidly with the equivalent of a jab-jab-cross combination . . . All three narrative threads turn out to wrap around Philip Hastings, a tormented hit man who stands at the center of a noirish storm of corruption, violence and depravity . . . At the core of “Fever City” is the sorrowful, all-too-real geography of Dealey Plaza, the terrain of history, “one huge killing field” that lends this alternative tale its heft. – The New York Times Book Review, USA
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