And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." Genesis 3:22 Four-year-old Reece Landis stood just twenty feet from President Kennedy as the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Fifty years later, that scene, like a reoccurring dream, is still as clear to Reece as it was then. But that's not unusual. Ask anyone who was four years of age or older on that day, "Where were you when JFK was shot?" and they would likely still be able to tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing.
What is unusual is the dream is sometimes not the same. It's as if buried deep in his subconscious there is a different memory of what happened in Dealey Plaza that day.
For fifty years Reece has been obsessed with trying to release that memory. He knows that if he does, it will reveal the truth of what really happened that day. He also knows there are others who will do anything to make sure his dream never comes true.
In his fourth novel, Last Witness, Stan Wilczek Jr. has crafted a tightly plotted mystery-thriller--with secrets, seductions, sex, lies, cover-ups, and conspiracies--around the most witnessed murder of the twentieth century.
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