Against the Current [Paperback]

Michael R. Little (Author)

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Publication Date: March 18, 2001

"Francisco, don't bother that man," his mother had said. He should have listened to Mama, because now the guy's dead and guess who got caught bending over the body? Now Franco must find the real murderer before he becomes a victim himself.

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Michael R. Little is a retired Air Force officer who works for Civil Service and, in his spare time, writes as a freelance journalist. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Navigator, Air Force ROTC Leader, Combat Crew and The Guard & Reserve. He is the author of A War of Information, a nonfiction book about US involvement in the war in El Salvador. Mr. Little lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, two sons, and a four-foot iguana named "Chico."

Product Details

• Paperback: 205 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp; 1 edition (March 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738856541
• ISBN-13: 978-0738856544
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,925,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Author Synopsis and Comments, March 31, 2001

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This review is from: Against the Current (Paperback)

At a Left Coast fundraiser for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front the speaker - a guerrilla commandante implicated in the massacre of US Embassy personnel in El Salvador - turns up dead. Francisco Lefevre, an Air Force Security Police officer, is caught bending over the body. Can he find the murderer before the guerrillas' sponsors - ranging from leftover Weathermen to the leading leftists of Congress - get him? The novel is set during Desert Shield, with the prospect of imminent war in the Gulf a dark presence throughout the story. To complicate matters Franco had encountered the commandante before, on a secret mission to parachute into Sandinista Nicaragua and recover the remains of his uncle, a Cuban-American flyer whose B-26 had crashed in the mountains on return from the Bay of Pigs. The action moves through other unusual locales; the Ahwanee Hotel set in the scenic splendor of Yosemite; Natchez, Mississippi, an Old Southern city founded by the French before New Orleans; and Omaha, Nebraska, in the heart of the Heartland. The plot is a whodunit with a military flavor but the theme deals with the moral and legal ambiguities of fighting the Cold War through surrogate conflicts in places like Central America, and right here on Main Street USA in the shadowy, bitter struggle for the hearts and minds of the American people. At its heart AGAINST THE CURRENT is about revenge and forgiveness, self discovery and self delusion, and the shadings between acts of war, peace, betrayal, and murder.