Clinton Confidential

In this relentlessly negative biography, former New York Post editor Carpozi accuses Bill Clinton and ``co-president'' Hillary of engaging in evasive, unethical and ``most probably criminal'' behavior from the days of the Arkansas governorship to the present White House. He labels as a probable murder the purported suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, Hillary Clinton's former law partner. Citing 17 other deaths under suspicious circumstances (e.g., Governor Clinton's security chief, Luther Parks, gunned down in 1993, who was said to be writing an expose of Bill Clinton's licentious life), Carpozi charges that these deaths were linked to the Clintons' efforts to cover up their Whitewater land deals, illegal campaign contributions and other shady business ventures. He alleges that Governor Clinton received huge amounts of money as compensation for his hands-off policy toward a CIA-orchestrated arms-shipment and cocaine-smuggling operation that was run out of the Mena, Arkansas, airport and that abetted the Nicaraguan contras. Carpozi weakens his indictments by including unsubstantiated allegations concerning Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs. Though mean-spirited and ultimately tedious, this bio raises serious charges that should not be ignored. Photos. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Mar.)