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International Intrigue, Sexual Deception, Naked Ambition and Treacherous Betrayals
Random House
May 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 1400062470
Hardcover
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Fiction
Here is a true literary event--the long-awaited new novel by
Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a
tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an
indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a
seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international
intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous
betrayal. In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations
Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to
vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and
Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation
is swift. Concocting a "glitch" in a Florida satellite,
America's president cuts Mexico's communications systems--no
phones, faxes, or e-mails--and plunges the country into an
administrative nightmare of colossal proportions. Now, despite the motto that "a Mexican politician never puts
anything in writing," people have no choice but to
communicate through letters, which Fuentes crafts with a
keen understanding of man's motives and desires. As the
blizzard of activity grows more and more complex, political
adversaries come out to prey. The ineffectual president, his
scheming cabinet secretary, a thuggish and ruthless police
chief, and an unscrupulous, sensual kingmaker are just a few
of the fascinating characters maneuvering and jockeying for
position to achieve the power they all so desperately crave.
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