{"product_id":"bombshell-9781594142024","title":"Bombshell","description":"\u003cp\u003eMax Allan Collins is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Its September 1959 -- the height of the Cold War. As American school children \"duck and cover\" in classroom drills  Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev suddenly announces he wants to visit the United States. President Eisenhower agrees to the history-making trip. Khrushchev has only two demands: he wants to see Disneyland . . . and Marilyn Monroe. He was  for security reasons  refused his first request; the second request  a meeting with Hollywoods blonde bombshell  was arranged . . . What if Marilyn was the only one who was aware of a covert plot to kill Khrushchev? When a State Department agent refuses to take Marilyn seriously  the sex goddess takes it upon herself to rescue the famous Russian  spiriting him away for a midnight visit to the theme park he longs to see. At once an historical novel  espionage thriller  and comic mystery  Bombshell accomplishes something few if any of the scores of books on these two icons of the 20th century manage: to bring to life the great movie star and the Russian dictator as real people . . . human  flawed  and  in their own individual ways  heroic. Barbara and Max Allan Collins live in Muscatine  Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929262293045,"sku":"ByrdShop_1594142025","price":99.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781594142024.jpg?v=1794195818","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bombshell-9781594142024","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}