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Editorial Review:
You are U.S. Army Military Intelligence trainee David Dengler. Following Army M.I. tradition, you are sent on a training exercise to a city you've never visited before and ordered to surveil a public person ('public persons' having little recourse if their privacy is invaded). You can't believe your good fortune. You draw the assignment to surveil Marilyn Monroe. It is early August, 1962, and you have just been made a witness to the murder of Hollywood's biggest star. Red Mist is a fast-paced thriller that recreates the world of 1960s America, a decade obsessed with sex, violence, and espionage. Follow David Dengler as he flees from unknown assassins, and struggles to stay alive as dark forces compress him from all sides. What David Dengler doesn't know - he has a rendezvous with death... in Dealey Plaza.
Red Mist: Marilyn Monroe. JFK. Murder. Assassination. One Witness. Reviews:
An E-ticket Ride 
2009-06-04 - This novel is a suspense thriller set in the early 1960s. It's like an E-ticket ride, and if you remember what that meant you'll know how exciting this book is. I read it in record time. I'm still recalling several scenes -- sexy scenes, sad scenes, scenes from history as well as the fictional scenes with the lead character, David Dengler, a young Army private on an almost unbelievable assignment. David must surveil Marilyn Monroe for one week in August 1962, during which time Monroe dies. This, and more, eventually leads Dengler through a maze of events bringing him to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, November 1963.
RED MIST is more than memorable. More than a story of what might have been. Author Richard Taylor (THE HAUNTING OF CAMBRIA) has written an extraordinary page of history that never was ...or was it?
Brilliant!
A Riveting and Incendiary Novel
2009-06-02 - Propelled by power, revenge and unquenchable longing, "Red Mist" is a runaway locomotive of a novel that careens through scandal, espionage, false identity, double-cross and explosive action climaxing with the crime of the century.
Novelist Richard Taylor has accomplished a nearly impossible task with this riveting and incendiary novel. Taylor has created as his protagonist a young, unseasoned government agent-in-training with the improbable name of David Dengler and placed him in extreme jeopardy smack in the middle of the high-stakes events which took place in the days between the death of Marilyn Monroe in Brentwood, California and the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
The plot ricochets from the cold, grim hills of West Virginia's coal country to the glitz of Hollywood to a foggy, isolated stretch of highway north of Santa Barbara to the corridors of covert power in Washington DC to the dim, false facades of the New Orleans underworld and ultimately builds to a bright November morning at the heart of Dealy Plaza in Dallas.
All the players are here: the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, the Soviets, iconic celebrities and politicians, strippers, street hoods and prostitutes, assassins you think you know and some you've never met before.
The brilliance of the novel is that its plot is actually possible. Taylor has kept meticulously to the historical timeline and given us a fictional hero, ensnared in events which have actually occurred.
Whether you are a conspiracy theorist, a fan of history or looking for a heart-pounding, page-turning thriller which delivers the goods from start to unforgettable finish "Red Mist" is definitely one for you.
Richard Taylor, you did it again!
2009-06-02 - This book is a "must read", and one that will fascinate you with the twists and turns of a subject that all of us who were alive in the 50's and 60's were left hanging from the press. Although fiction, this story line is completely believable as you read it, the scenes accurate,down to the finest detail.Research amazing,I felt like I was there when it all happened, a partner of Dengler. This writer should be on the best seller list with each of his books. "Haunting of Cambria" was great, and it just gets better and better with each book he publishes!!
Fiction has never kept my attention, until now
2009-06-01 - Since I've always been intrigued and interested in the JFK assassination, I thought I would see if this book was as great as a friend had recommended it to be. Oh my goodness, once I began reading it, I had a very difficult time putting it down. Remember, I've never been much on reading fiction (I usually love to watch "the movie"), but this is so well written and is a first class book filled with mystery and excitement. Once you begin reading, you'll find yourself continuing to read and to turn the pages to see what's next. I would love to see this book made into a movie, but after reading Red Mist, I will always recommend to others to read the book. I say, well done, Richard Taylor!
Be an eye witness to the events of 1962-63
2009-04-28 - Checklist for your Spy Kit:
1. Penlight
2. Camera with extra film
3. Gloves
4. Handkerchief
5. Salve
6. Walther PPK
AND, if you have a viable secret decoder ring, you just might want to toss that in too as we ride shotgun with David Dengler as he pulls up the hatch on a labyrinth of espionage, double agents, murder and veiled secrets. Hush-hush secrets.
Ring, Ring! Ring, Ring! Richard Taylor, you may want to answer that...its probably Hollywood calling with a RED MIST movie offer.
