There is something about the stoccato style that works against a background of the early 1960s and an America of Hoover and the Kennedys.
With the battle between the Kennedy brothers and those not too keen on them getting into the White House there is an ex cop and an FBI agent that are caught in the middle. That makes the tension work straight off on two levels. But what really adds to it is the backdrop of America, a glamorous US.
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