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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Red White Blue, (RWB) by Lea Carpenter, is not a typical spy novel. Oh, it has suspense and it focusses on the world through a spy’s eyes, but danger and chase scenes are seriously wanting. RWB is much more in the vein of a le Carré story - exploring the psychology and philosophy of the spy mind. Of course, these traits are exposed by the narrative, but RWB goes one step further and uses the structure of the exposition to bring the issues of uncertainty and trust to the fore. Each chapter is divided into two parts: one is a straight-forward third person limited narrative of the feelings, events and thoughts in the life of the protagonist, Anna, an extremely intelligent young woman (graduated Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.) The other part of each chapter is a letter or transcript of a recording, a second-person narrative, addressed directly to Anna by her father’s protégé and labelled Q. A. This part relates to Anna the secret story of her father, a CIA espionage chief, about which Anna is clueless. The mystery at the heart of RWB is the father’s death in an avalanche near his winter home in the Swiss Alps. However, the trail leading to this event is long and circuitous, and as we, the readers, traverse it, we learn from the point of view of two different narrators all about the minds and spirits of four main people - Anna, her father, her mother and the protégé. It is a story that balances on the reliability of the limited viewpoints of the narrators - is what is being presented a riddle or a clue (to the character and to the reader)? Is the narrator missing the forest while describing the trees? What were the motivations for particular choices and actions? Is each person acting, at each instance, on the basis of their own individual ethics and philosophies or are there societal or corporate pressures at play, protocols and documents, testimonies and cultures? The result of these different narratives and the structure of their presentations is to force the reader into the mindset of a spy, one who must deal with a large set of unknowns and must disentangle the clues from the riddles and try to determine Truth, one who is only gradually able to assign a logical interpretation to a set of events, to winnow the wheat from the chaff. The reader stumbles down blind alleys, retreats, tries to find the right place for each jigsaw piece, and learns along the way some of what it must be like to be a spy. What fun! I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret pastâ??at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty. Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City bankerâ??and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing accident in Switzerland the day before his daughter's wedding, Anna, consumed by grief, grows increasingly distant from her prominent music-producing husband, who begins running for office. One day, while on her honeymoon in the south of France, Anna meets an enigmatic stranger who will cause perhaps even greater upheaval in her life. It will soon become clear that this meeting was no chance encounter: this man once worked with Anna's father and has information about parts of Noel's life that Anna never knew. When she arrives back in New York, she receives a parcel that contains a series of cryptic recordings and videos showing Noel at the center of a brutal interrogation. Soon, everything Anna knows about her father's lifeâ??and his deathâ??is called into question, launching her into a desperate search for the truth. Smart, fast-moving, and suspenseful, Red, White, Blue plunges us into the inner workings of the CIA, a China Ops gone wrong, and the consequences of a collision between one's deepest personal ties and the most exacting and fateful professional Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In France for her honeymoon, she meets a stranger who once worked with Noel, a man who shares information about her father. Soon Anna is in search of an elusive truth. But what is the truth, and what will it mean for Anna’s quest to understand her father?
Told in short chapters, the narrative moves along at a brisk pace. Alternately narrated by a CIA college of Noel’s and by Anna herself, this tale of espionage holds a plethora of reflections and reminders of the past, often reading more like a memoir than a spy thriller. Peopled with well-developed characters and filled with unexpected reveals, the mood of the narrative is sure to pull the reader into the telling of the tale. ( )