A Shade of Difference

Name: A Shade of Difference
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Allen Drury
ISBN: 9781942248767

Author: Allen Drury

Narrator: Allan Robertson

Unabridged: 35 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 10/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Political

Synopsis

The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Advise and Consent from Author Allen Drury, the 20th Century grand master of political thriller fiction. A Shade of Difference is a novel that outlays the frictions that could spark a worldwide powder keg. International tensions rise as ambassadors and politicians scheme, using the independence of a small African nation as the focal point for hidden agendas. A cascade of events begun in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations could lead to the weakening of the United States, the loss of the Panama Canal, and a possible civil war. Allen Drury paints a vivid and laser accurate portrait of Washington and international politics, from top-secret conferences, to elite cocktail parties, club luncheon rooms, and the private offices of the key players in government. A novel as relevant today as when it was first published.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on December 23, 2023

This is the 2nd in the 6 book series by Drury on Politics in the US in the 1950-1960s. I read them all in the 1960s and am re-reading them now. This book could have been published now. It deals with racial problems in the US and how a UN resolution wanted to condemn the US and interview in the US in......more

Goodreads review by Judy on September 08, 2016

This endless tome was the #3 bestseller in 1962. This review is the second installment of the 1962 reading challenge I set for myself in August. (For background on why 1962, see My Big Fat Reading Project: [URL not allowed]) Finishing the novel also marked the completion of m......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 31, 2014

Not quite as good as book one, but still an excellent read. It's interesting to read these books that were written in the 50's and 60's, during the cold war, desegregation, assassination, etc. They're written with kind of a "what if" viewpoint, but I'm reading them a good 50 years later, knowing ful......more

Goodreads review by Donna on August 28, 2016

Read this whole series back in the 60's. Loved them then. Drury is the writer who got me started on political thrillers!......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 30, 2018

A little easier to get into than Advise and Consent. If read first, a lot of the Advise and Consent characters are already familiar, but it doesn't really spoil the first book.......more