Was there a link between Lee Harvey Oswald"s years in Russia and the J.F.K. assassination? In this stylish, darkly twisted debut thriller by a former music writer for Time magazine, New York police detective Francis X. Byrne uncovers just such a connection as he probes the grisly murder of a kinky Danish diplomat. Byrne also finds that his own FBI agent brother and their Polish American mother are important pieces of the puzzle.