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Knopf
August 2014
On Sale: July 29, 2014
456 pages
ISBN: 0385349602
EAN: 9780385349604
Kindle: B00IBZ3YXG
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Mystery | Suspense
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 Curaçao, 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.
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