Back Channel, Stephen L. Carter
Back Channel, Stephen L. Carter
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Back Channel

Author: Stephen L. Carter

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 17 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2014

Synopsis

October 1962. In Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen - a nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore-is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy. Events unfold too quickly for her even to ask why me? But the stunning answer is revealed bit by bit as she is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire of infighting between governmental agencies; into desperate negotiations to avoid nuclear war; and into the secrets of the extraordinary legacy she inherited from the father she never knew.

About Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter is the bestselling author of several novels—including The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White—and over half a dozen works of non-fiction. Formerly a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, he is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He and his wife live in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey)

This is my fourth novel by Carter that I’ve read, my favorite being his last book, THE IMPEACHMENT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. I enjoyed his revisionist history of Abe Lincoln and the thorny disputes and complexities of abolition and economics, as well as the passionate way he evoked the Executive decision-......more

Goodreads review by Monte

More, in real time, thoughts can be found in this vlog The Kennedy era with the Cold War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis specifically feels like a hot time period for lots of people that want to craft stories. There are so many movies and books that cover this time period, but this is the one that's fo......more

Goodreads review by Steven

Whether reading Stephen L. Carter’s THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK and the novels that follow that genre to his historical novel, THE IMPEACHMENT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always felt very satisfied and contented when completing one of his books. After reading his latest effort at altering American histo......more

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