5/20/2023 0 Comments Back channel stephen carter![]() In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance.Īnd 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.Īs the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. On the island of Cura#65533 ao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. 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. but they're careful not to tell her that. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. 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. ![]() ![]() Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. ![]()
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