THE TWILIGHT TOWN

A fast-paced, hardboiled thriller ripped from the pages of history!

Dallas, 1963: Dan Wilson is a Dallas PD detective with something to hide. He’s secretly helping Bobby Kennedy’s FBI investigate police corruption between Captain Eastbrook and the Dallas mob. But Wilson isn’t doing it out of the goodness of his heart. He’s got his sights set on Washington and becoming an FBI man.

Officer JD Tippit is Wilson’s ex-partner. He has bills to pay, troubles at home and a career that’s going nowhere fast. He has nothing to lose when he agrees to help Wilson dig up dirt on the department’s top brass. They catch a break when they find a scared young man caught up in the Dallas underworld. His name is Lee Oswald.

Officer Harry Denton never met a corner he couldn’t cut. A proud member of Captain Eastbrook’s cadre of crooked cops, he’ll do anything to protect his boss and keep the river of dirty money flowing through the department.

Wilson, Tippit and Denton soon lose their way in a shadow world of mob bosses, bigots, bureaucrats and power brokers named Ruby, Marcello, Walker, Hoover and Kennedy. In a sweeping saga that spans the seedy strip joints of Dallas to the halls of power in Washington, these three cops are on a collision course with history. And not all of them will make it out alive.

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“A hard-boiled what-if that convincingly imagines the dark side of Dallas leading up to the Kennedy assassination—gritty and suspenseful.”

~ Meg Gardiner, author of Shadowheart

"Terrence McCauley rocks readers with The Twilight Town, a new imagining of a crucial period in American history: the daze before and through the assassination of President JFK in Dallas in '63. McCauley takes a new and crucial approach to fictionalizing history by focusing on the lives of those who worked the streets of Texas and beyond. This novel will blow your mind—and the good news is, it's #1 of a trilogy."

~ James Grady, creator of Condor and 2024 Larry McMurtry-compared author of American Sky

"Terrence McCauley takes us back to a time and a catastrophic series of events most of us have only viewed through grainy television footage. The Twilight Town puts you on the ground, with descriptions of 1960s Dallas and the players involved in the JFK assassination plot so vivid you can feel the sticky, humid air of conspiracy and the racing heartbeats of the men trying to prevent a disaster from unfolding. McCauley's prose is so eloquent in its economy, each line of punchy dialogue landing with weight, crackling with energy and urgency. The story pulses with the rapid, pounding drumbeats of the best Cold War thrillers. The only time I put this book down was to catch my breath!”

~ Bruce Borgos, author of The Bitter Past

"They tell me this is a novel, but this rocket ride reads like McCauley was an eyewitness to history."

~ Matthew V. Clemens, co-author of the John Sands Series with Max Allan Collins