03224cam a2200493 4500 319952578 TxAuBib 20170706120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385349611 0385349610 B00IBZ3YXG Amazon 2c87ec8e-0d29-463a-8f16-5c9238e6c5b5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1553311 OverDrive (Product ID) 225080 1553311 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Carter, Stephen L. Back Channel [Libby] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Thrillers. Cuban Missile Crisis. Historical Fiction. chess. strong women characters. Thriller. Bobby Fischer. thriller books. conflict theory. emperor of ocean park. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2598kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML: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.<br /> Stephen L. Carter's gripping new novel, <i>Back Channel,</i> 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.<br /> On the island of Curaçao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance.<br /> In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance.<br /> 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.<br /> 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-09-06 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/back-channel?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/back-channel?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/back-channel?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CWPCP