Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln’s defense, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that “whatever limitations society might place on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her.” And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington society: working side by side with a white clerk, meeting the great and powerful of the nation - including the president himself. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. 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.From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, comes a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. 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. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance.
On the island of Curaçao, 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. You can read this before Back Channel: A novel PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Back Channel: A novel written by Stephen L.
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