Peter Chancellor, a novelist known for his deadly accurate and dangerously controversial political "fiction," makes a dangerous discovery in the course of his research: "J. Edgar Hoover did not die a natural death. He was assassinated."

With a simple pretext for his protagonist's motivation, Ludlum plunges the listener into a veritable whirlwind of plot and counterplot.

"THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT seems to justify our worst nightmares of what really goes on in the so-called Intelligence Community in Washington." (The New York Times)

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