Palace Council [LARGE PRINT] - Softcover

Stephen L. Carter

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9780739328132: Palace Council [LARGE PRINT]

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739328131 ISBN 13: 9780739328132

Publisher: Random House, 2008

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From THE NEW YORKER (2008) - Set primarily in the years between 1954 and 1974-what Carter calls the "two decades" of the sixties-this political thriller leaves virtually no important person or event unturned. Richard Nixon, Langston Hughes, and dissident groups all play roles as the action shifts from Harlem to Washington and Saigon. After Eddie Wesley stumbles upon the body of a prominent lawyer who died clutching the talisman of a secret society in his fist, he finds himself caught up in the machinations of spies and assassins. Untangling the so-called Palace Council's purpose gains new urgency when Eddie's sister suddenly vanishes. At the same time, Aurelia, the ex-girlfriend for whom he still carries a torch, is on her own path to discovering the enigmatic group's secrets. While Carter offers a finely drawn picture of the complicated black social world, and the high-reaching conspiracy has its allure, he seems to strain to pull his story together-discarded candy wrappers become a clue to the anticlimactic finish.

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