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Back Channel: A Novel by Stephen L. Carter (2014, Hardcover/Dust Jacket)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- N/A
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780385349604
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385349602
ISBN-13
9780385349604
eBay Product ID (ePID)
177930586
Product Key Features
Book Title
Back Channel : a Novel
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage, African American / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-019240
Reviews
"[His] best work of fiction yet. . . . Enough intrigue . . . to keep . . . the eyes of a well-informed reader glued to the page." -- The Boston Globe "Smart, well written and well informed. . . . Pure, mile-a-minute entertainment." -- The Washington Post "Stephen L. Carter's suspenseful novel will have readers burning the midnight oil. . . . Because the novel is based on an historical event, the real question is not will nuclear war be avoided but how." -- New York Journal of Books
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. Warships and submarines are on the move. Planes are in the air. Troops are at the ready. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a "back channel"--a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk . . . but they're careful not to tell her that. Stephen L. Carter's gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction--a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. On the island of Curaao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, one of the few black women at Cornell, is asked to go to Eastern Europe to babysit a madman. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire--and into her own family's hidden past., October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. Warships and submarines are on the move. Planes are in the air. Troops are at the ready. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a back channel a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk . . . but they re careful not to tell her that. Stephen L. Carter s gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. On the island of Curacao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, one of the few black women at Cornell, is asked to go to Eastern Europe to babysit a madman. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire and into her own family s hidden past."
LC Classification Number
PS3603.A78B33 2014
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