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"From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln-a new novel of terrific suspense and surprise: a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction about a young black woman on whom the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis depends. 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…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2015Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780345804877
- Other · English · 2014Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A. · 9781306955881
- Other · English · 2014Alfred A. Knopf · 455 pages · 9780385349604
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962African American womenFictionFICTION / EspionageFICTION / HistoricalCuban missile crisis, 1962, fictionAfrican americans, fictionFiction, suspense