comrade-ché
16th May 2006, 04:20
A Random House Hardcover
Category: Fiction
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 356 pages
$24.95/$32.95C
ISBN 10: 978-1-4000-6393-2
ISBN 13: 1-4000-6393-0
ON SALE 4/3/07
Under Other Skies begins with a deadly firefight on a jungle road in Bolivia. The year is 1967; Vietnam is in flames and half a world away few realize that the ambush in Bolivia is the beginning or a new and secret war. In the ancahuazu Valley of Bolivia international revolutionary Ernesto Ch Guevara leads a band of guerillas determined to liberate a continent. CIA officer Paul Hoyle joins a team of operatives sent to crush the insurgency and terminate Guevara. As Hoyle pursues Ch through the jungles of Bolivia, he enters into a place where all the questions are black and white and all the answers are gray. Hoyle is witness to the hapless brutality of the Bolivian Army, the cold-blooded efficiency of a team of Green Berets and the treachery of venial and morally destitute Bolivian officers. Penetrating Guevaras urban network, Hoyle stumbles upon an unlikely ally, an illegal KGB operative who offers the Americans a trade: help the KGB exfiltrate one of their agents, the legendary Tania and the Russians will give up Guevara. Hoyle is skeptical, until the Russian explains that both Castro and Moscow want Guevara dead. As the deadly truth behind the hunt begins to unravel, Hoyle finds himself on a complex and painful journey of self-discovery and a trajectory that will involve him directly in the murder of Ch. This powerful, tragic story transports the reader into the heart of the Bolivian jungle and into a world of noble truth and glorious aspirations. Pfarrer writes of love and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, and the tragic death of an ideal. Pfarrers masterful prose and intricate plotting grabs hold with a steel garrote and doesnt let go.
Category: Fiction
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 356 pages
$24.95/$32.95C
ISBN 10: 978-1-4000-6393-2
ISBN 13: 1-4000-6393-0
ON SALE 4/3/07
Under Other Skies begins with a deadly firefight on a jungle road in Bolivia. The year is 1967; Vietnam is in flames and half a world away few realize that the ambush in Bolivia is the beginning or a new and secret war. In the ancahuazu Valley of Bolivia international revolutionary Ernesto Ch Guevara leads a band of guerillas determined to liberate a continent. CIA officer Paul Hoyle joins a team of operatives sent to crush the insurgency and terminate Guevara. As Hoyle pursues Ch through the jungles of Bolivia, he enters into a place where all the questions are black and white and all the answers are gray. Hoyle is witness to the hapless brutality of the Bolivian Army, the cold-blooded efficiency of a team of Green Berets and the treachery of venial and morally destitute Bolivian officers. Penetrating Guevaras urban network, Hoyle stumbles upon an unlikely ally, an illegal KGB operative who offers the Americans a trade: help the KGB exfiltrate one of their agents, the legendary Tania and the Russians will give up Guevara. Hoyle is skeptical, until the Russian explains that both Castro and Moscow want Guevara dead. As the deadly truth behind the hunt begins to unravel, Hoyle finds himself on a complex and painful journey of self-discovery and a trajectory that will involve him directly in the murder of Ch. This powerful, tragic story transports the reader into the heart of the Bolivian jungle and into a world of noble truth and glorious aspirations. Pfarrer writes of love and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, and the tragic death of an ideal. Pfarrers masterful prose and intricate plotting grabs hold with a steel garrote and doesnt let go.