The Circus Master's Mission - Softcover

Brinkley, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449219062 ISBN 13: 9780449219065

Publisher: Fawcett, 1990

Synopsis

A new presidency and an as-yet-unformed policy toward the Contras spur Colonel Eric Gustafson to create a secret plan that will lead the United States to invade Nicaragua, a plot that can be exposed only by journalist Christopher Eaton

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From Library Journal:

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Brinkley brings to his first novel an admirable eye for crystalline detail and a keen ear for a journalist's persistence. Using as his background the contras and Sandinistas of Nicaragua, he imagines a true-to-life saga laced with American meddling and blackened by the vices and excesses of the insurgents and counterinsurgents. His main protagonists are a sharp reporter with deep-throat sources and a White House aide blinded by ambition and, on occasion, lust. Very quickly and neatly Brinkley whips up a plot that is fleshed out by characters similar to personalities very much in the news. Without too much exaggeration the novel can be expected to do for the Iran-contra affair what All the President's Men did for Watergate, albeit not fictionally. Readers of political fiction will hope Brinkley can produce more of this caliber and soon.
- Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

An unnamed post-Reagan administration argues over possible American aggression toward Nicaragua. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times , "Brinkley plots his novel methodically, with few surprises or intrigues until the end. What gives his story its edge is insight into the workings of government," PW commented. Author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0449219062
• ISBN 13: 9780449219065
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback