The Washington PostI once heard a master of suspense say that the craft was actually quite simple: Take a perfectly normal situation, a trope readers know well, then throw in a wild "what if?"…It's a lesson Francine Mathews seems to have learned well. Her Jack 1939 is most assuredly a work of fiction, but it takes skeins of history we all know well—Churchill's England, Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt's White House, the rise of the Kennedy family fortunes—and ravels a hair-raising tale…Mathews's ability to weave fact into her tale is nothing short of remarkable.
—Marie Arana
Publishers WeeklyPresident Franklin Roosevelt recruits 21-year-old John F. Kennedy to be his personal spy in this imaginative, well-researched mix of fact and fiction.
