Overview
- Paloma Sánchez‑Garnica has published Un hombre de honor, a novel that centers on Robert Kennedy’s 1968 assassination as the narrative engine for a story about crime, power and the press.
- The author says her research turned up “irregularities, manipulations and disappeared evidence” in the RFK case and she doubts Sirhan Sirhan alone fired the fatal shot.
- Sánchez‑Garnica emphasizes the book is a work of fiction that uses real archival incongruities as material rather than an investigative exposé of the murder.
- The plot follows Nicole Donaldson, a pioneering woman reporter, and Frank Bernstein, a Harlem police officer, as their inquiries expose links between organized crime, elite interests and institutional corruption.
- Set against Vietnam‑era turmoil and social change, the novel argues that a free, probing press is essential to democratic accountability and could renew public scrutiny of long‑standing questions about 1968.