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I despise Hoover but I’ve always considered his abuses to be the EPITOME of the behavior of the scum from “the intelligence community” (LMAO), not an aberration from it. The accumulation of private information about people carries with it the implicit intent to USE that information against them. The novel’s naïvete shows in that premise. from behind the scenes by blackmailing the rich and the powerful. figures that we readers are told that whoever takes hold of said files will be able to rule the U.S. Those files contain so much “raw meat” on powerful U.S. (That’s NOT a spoiler – all that is made clear in the novel’s opening pages.) The novel’s “what if” premise depicts the 77 year old FBI Director’s death as a planned assassination to prevent the Nixon White House from getting ahold of Hoover’s legendary files. TIME PERIOD: From shortly before J Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972 up to early 1973. (Think of fascist garbage like the CIA’s John Brennan.) There are Deep State operatives and an ugly “we know best” mentality like in today’s headlines. THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT (1977) – With the latest revelations about blatant abuses by the FBI and other politicized agencies here’s Robert Ludlum’s novel about the dangers of such abuses by both the left and the right.