num_pages: 384
description:  A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURETANGIER tells two parallel stories: one a mystery and the other a spy story set fifty years apart and told in a series of alternating sections. In the first we follow Christopher Chaffee a disgraced Washington power broker whose father a French diplomat died in a Vichy prison in 1944or so he had always believed until a letter received decades after it was posted upends his life. Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches the narrow lanes and twisted souls of Tangiers ancient medina in search of the father he never knew.The second is a tale of espionage and betrayal set in Morocco during WWII. Rene Laurent Christophers father struggles to maintain his integrityand his lifein the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as Christopher unravels the mystery of his fathers fate and Laurent becomes trapped in a web of lies and corruption and caught up too in the arms of a woman he knows he shouldnt trust.Ultimately TANGIER is the story of fathers and sons the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land the seductive face of betrayal and finally the lengths well go to for redemption.
language: English
title: Tangier
publisher: Blank Slate Press