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Frewin, Anthony

Sixty-Three Closure

Harpenden, Herts, UK, No Exit Press. 344 pp. £6.99.

Christopher Cornwell, a persistent alcoholic, receives several photos a friend mailed prior to his suicide. One of the photos shows Lee Harvey Oswald. How could Oswald have been photographed in a Hertfordshire market town when he was supposed to be a defector in Russia? Thus, conventionally enough, begins Anthony Frewin's mystery.

As Cornwell investigates (will the pursuit influence him to stop drinking or drink even more) he becomes the target of an investigation. A shadowy agency is out to stop him. Cornwell realizes he is one of several interested in the mystery of how Oswald had ended up in Hitchin, and they had all committed suicide.

In between his investigation and heavy drinking, the novel recreates life and courtship in earlier days, relating the touching story of the growing love between two old school friends. They had been just good friends for decades and now realize they are in love.

To understand what has happened, Cornwell delves into the official literature. By the time he is done, you realize that it is the Warren Report which was the massive piece of fiction and this is the genuine version of what happened.

A realistic and haunting JFK conspiracy novel.

Anthony Frewin has also written a non-fiction book on the JFK assassination. Like so many Londoners he has migrated to the market town of St. Albans in Hertfordshire.