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What the critics say

Remarkable... The president's wit, courtesy, peacemaking vision and cool judgement are all here, vividly re-created, as well as courage in the face of near disabling infirmity and pain....gripping and thoughtful
- The Sunday Times

Compelling. Glacially elegant prose... depicts a man who, for all his power, remains imprisoned by desire
- Financial Times

He writes in brilliantly clinical prose...His real success is here is to highlight how JFK moved politics into a culture of celebrity...Mercurio finds a truth in JFK through fiction
- Metro

Mercurio ought to be applauded for the boldness of his project...The Cuban Missile Crisis is brilliantly, claustrophobically handled, and the treatment of the president's tragically premature son Joseph so riveted me that I found my head reluctantly buried in the book as I walked down the street and bumped into things
- Independent

American Adulterer is a novel of our times: shameless and prurient, detached and salacious
- The Observer

A gripping and thoughtful novel
- Sunday Times

Mercurio captures Kennedy's wit (and sometimes its bawdy edge), his vision and his coolness in a crisis
- www.thebookbag.co.uk

Full of contemporary resonances
- The Irish Times