Here is Lee Harvey Oswald's family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an "America (waiting) for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat". Based on Mailer's personal research in Russia and elsewhere, KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, and letters and diaries, this in an epic account of a man whose cunning, duplicity, and self-invention where both at home in and at odds with the country he forever altered.