This is a narrative meditation on history, in the guise of a political

thriller based on the Judy Campbell Exner story. You may recall she
was the real-life gorgeous brunette mistress of both John F. Kennedy
and Sam Giancana, the mafia don. The narrator, a street-smart
newspaper guy from Chicago, happens upon the diaries of Judith Campell
Exner, which he believes will be the break he needs to lift him out of
his dead-level mediocrity. What he hasn’t bargained on, however, is
falling in love with Judy’s ghost. Instead of looking at Judy
Campbell as merely a commercial subject he can exploit, he more and
more sees her as a tragically misunderstood figure. Ultimately, he
wants to rescue her from the dark infamy that has been her historical
fate. Fred Turner’s THE GO-BETWEEN goes beyond the story of a
complicated woman, and is emblematic of America itself: big,
beautiful, deeply flawed, and ultimately uncontrollable.



You’ll find the cast of characters very colorful: the narrator and
Judy, of course, but also including JFK, Sinatra, Phil Kenneally, a
brilliant disbarred criminal defense attorney and Mary Pinchot Meyer,
the socialite wife of a CIA agent who succeeds Judy as the President’s
mistress.



This is Frederick Turner’s third novel after the highly acclaimed
REDEMPTION and 1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age.