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Family Trade pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
With this new work, master storyteller James
Carroll has written his most ambitious novel to
date: Family Trade is as compelling a narrative as
his bestselling Morta/Fr/ends and as rich in moral
vision as his critically acclaimed Fault L/nes. A grip-
ping story of international intrigue, Family Trade is
also a profound exploration of the morality of the
hidden conflict between East and West. Told from
the perspective ofJake McKay, son and nephew of
two of the men who plan and conduct this "quiet
war; James Carroll s novel focuses on the human
costs of choices that intelligence officers must make.
Washington, D.C., 1960: Against a background
of the election of a new President and the crises
caused by Berlin, the U-2 and notorious defections,
Jake McKay begins a promising career as a student
at Georgetown University. At an art gallery he is
smitten by the sight of a beautiful young girl, but
suddenly his youthful preoccupations are shattered
as he stumbles on a first sign of his father s great
secret. The discovery implies adultery, deceit, and
betrayal, and it devastates him. Seeking the truth
he turns to his uncle, only to suffer an even more
devastating blow, one that destroys his family.
London, Berlin, 1945: The orders come from
number 10 Downing Street. Group Captain Giles
Patterson, Jake s uncle, and Colonel John McKay,
his father, are to undertake the greatest challenge
of their exemplary wartime careers in British and
American military intelligence: to parachute into
Berlin and, with the aid of the local Communist
underground, to cut off Hitler s planned escape
from the city. Yet this=extraordinary mission is
merely a cover for their real assignment-- to
destroy all documents and evidence of Nazi work
on the atomic bomb before they can fall into Rus-
sian hands. In the chaotic and violent moments
between the Nazis defeat and the Red Army s vic-
tory, these two men discover one of the great secrets
of the coming Cold War, and a great secret about their persona/friendship. Now they must find a way
of living with both forever.
Boston, Berlin, 1980: Jake McKay is an English
professor whose complacent and comfortable life
cannot protect him from a keen sense of failed
expectations. He is visited by a beautiful German
woman, who was the young girl from the art gallery
years before and whose image in Jake s mind has
always been tied to the unanswered questions of his
youth. These mysteries still haunt him, and so he
accompanies her on a secret mission to Berlin.
There, amid the painful memories of the last war
and the dramatic symbols of the present quiet one
Jake learns the shocking truth, and it is not at all
what he expects. Suddenly he discovers that he is at
the center of the secret, and for one extraordinary
moment he must ply the family trade at last.
If Family Trade has a special depth and urgency,
it is because it comes out of the imagination of a
gifted novelist who is himself the son of an Amer-
ican intelligence official. A fast-paced story of
espionage at the highest level, it is also a deeply felt
examination of the shattering consequences that
men and women suffer when their most crucial duty
involves deceit and their loyalty requires betrayal.
]ames Carroll is the author of Madonna Red,
Mortal Friends, and Fault Lines. He and his wife,
the author Alexandra Marshall, live in Boston with
their daughter, Elizabeth.
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Family Trade pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024