Ikon

By Graham Masterton

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812521919
• ISBN13: 9780812521917
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Cold War thriller offers humorous nostalgia.

The collapse of the Soviet Union robs the center of this political conspiracy thriller of some of its oompf, but Masterton's professional skill at combining suspense with just the right amount of humor, kinky sex, and over the top comic book violence still makes it a fun read. Several American citizens uncover the horrible truth about the true forces running the US government. Tongue in cheek approach gives this conspiracy thriller a playful edge that helps it go down easy. Recommended.

This book makes you change your views about the USA

What an excellent idea. Just when you thought you knew all about the recent history of the United States, along comes this well-known horror book writer and completely changes your focus. If you want to know, why Kennedy was assassinated and what really happened to Marilyn Monroe, read this book. Seriously, this is a unbelievable plot idea and once you are into this book you might not be able to put it down too fast.

Masterton at his best

Graham Masterton has among the wildest and wooliest imaginations of anybody working in the field today--so much so that I can't even identify for sure which "field" it is that "Ikon" belongs to. I guess it's closest to the genre of espionage fiction for which he's written about half a dozen entries. Masterton is fond of conspiracies, and "Ikon" is so dense with them that I'd be spoiling it to give any of them away. Suffice it to say that the plot revolves around John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, a mysterious Soviet agent, and a pile of ordinary-Joe characters who get caught in the middle of the whole thing entirely by accident. It's a tough call, but this is probably Masterton's most enthrallingly bizarre novel, up there with earlier paranoid wonders such as "Fireflash 5" and "The Sweetman Curve," two of his best and least available. You'll gasp, you'll laugh, you won't be bored for a second.