While negotiating with a Soviet man willing to exchange information for asylum in the U.S., CIA agent Bradford Sims discovers an explosive secret that links that FBI and the KGB to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 35,000 first printing.
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Former CIA officer Andrews ( Last Spy Out ) weaves unconvincing fiction from conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1991 Bradford Sims, a black CIA operative, brings in a Soviet defector and finds references in the man's case file to disgraced former agent Edward Houghton. After Sims is abruptly fired from the agency, he looks up Houghton, now an embittered drunk, and together they trace the defector's career backwards, connecting him to an assassination attempt on James Earl Ray, the man who would later be convicted of murdering Martin Luther King in 1968. The tortuous narrative, marked by cryptic conversations among figures in the FBI, CIA and KGB, even includes the shenanigans of Texas oil barons. Readers will respond variously to the author's suggestions that Ray evolved from a chronic small-time loser to a man capable of maintaining several clever aliases and that powerful interest groups found advantage in manipulating King and his followers. But because Sims and Houghton are not fully conceived characters, they do not have enough depth or resonance to carry the tale.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Well-crafted thriller with historical facts,
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This review is from: Death in a Promised Land (Paperback)
I'd never heard of Robert Andrews before and bought the book at a bookseller's going-out-of-business sale. But I could tell in the crafting of the story that Andrews has had some experience writing somewhere. I like this genre, being a Clancy, Forsyth, and thriller enthusiast. And I write in this style myself. I have respect for Mr. Andrews' talents, and his experience, as perused from the jacket bio. And I thought he did a pretty good job, overall, writing a novel with a black main character considering he (Mr. Andrews) is white. I also think it's noteworthy and perhaps something of a marvel that a former CIA agent and Green Beret (the author, Mr. Andrews) would have a political view this liberal. The story seemed a little trite regarding plot (black CIA agent discovers questionable FBI activities from long ago in old files and enlists former (white) CIA agent, now a wasted alcoholic, to help him unravel it). But it worked for me because I am 100 percent pro African American, and I think Martin Luther King was one of the most courageous and exemplary Americans ever. The main complaint I have of this book is not limited to just this one--it has to do with a gripe I have regarding all historical fiction. Where does fact leave off and the author's story begin? Does Andrews know something about a conspiracy that he either can't document or can't publish as nonfiction? Maybe these questions can't be answered, or more likely, maybe these are just the kind of questions Mr. Andrews would have the reader ask.
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