Patsy

What if Lee Harvey Oswald had lived to stand trial for the assassination of President Kennedy?

November 24, 1963. Dallas.

Lee Harvey Oswald is being transferred from police custody when Jack Ruby steps from the crowd and fires.

Only this time, Oswald survives.

Eighteen months later, the man accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy finally faces a jury.

The prosecution has the rifle, the eyewitnesses, the photographs, and a case already tried in the court of public opinion.

The defense has questions.

Inside a Houston courtroom, both sides must finally do what history never required of them: present the evidence, challenge it, and place the case in the hands of a jury.

Drawing from the historical record surrounding the assassination, Patsy: The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald imagines the trial America never saw.

This is not a conspiracy novel.

It does not ask you to believe Oswald was guilty.

It does not ask you to believe he was innocent.

Instead, the evidence is presented. The arguments are made. The witnesses are examined. And when the case is over, the verdict belongs to you.

For readers of historical fiction, courtroom drama, political history, and the enduring mystery surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Patsy asks one simple question:

If Lee Harvey Oswald had lived to stand trial, would there have been enough evidence to convict him beyond a reasonable doubt?