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c2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Car Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 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.
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2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK Fic Car Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.
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2007., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK MYS Fic Car Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK MYS Fic Car Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office.
