In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan...
Diplomats
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Author:Graham, John W., Bothwell, RobertSummary: - Author:MCINNES, GrahamSummary:
With vivid recall of detail, the author describes life in a suburb of Melbourne during his boyhood in the 1920's.
- Author:Neggers, CarlaSummary:
Diplomatic security agent Maggie Spencer gets a tip that allows her to arrest the FBI's most wanted man, Nicholas Janssen. Maggie receives lots of attention after the arrest--especially from U.S. Marshal Rob Dunnemore, who's...
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Author:Wilkshire, NickSummary:In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't...
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Author:Gaudio, ClaudioSummary:A diplomat is captured by supposed insurgents and is waiting in a room for his execution. Texas is a provocative story of death against the backdrop of ugly and uncompromising politics. It is also a meditation on empire, imperialism and...
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Author:Larson, ErikSummary:The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador...
- Author:Wyatt, ScottSummary:
When Alden Frost and Fatimah Ibrahim break into PS 32 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, their motives appear benign. They raise a “companion flag,” a symbol of all that human beings have in common. But PS 32 is more than a school. It doubles as...
- Author:Jones, AllanSummary:
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and...
