Title: Little America
Description: "Terry Hooper's father - Quaker-raised, Yale-educated, a sometime poet, now a retired (is he?) State Department veteran - was, in the 1950s, the C.I.A. station chief in Kurash, a small, newly constituted Middle Eastern country, a country caught in the grip of cold war politics, a country of beautiful and frightening Otherness (Arab women hidden behind their veils, scar-faced men on horseback with curved sabers, and streets that melted in the heat), 90 percent Muslim, lodged like a walnut between Syria and Iraq. Mack Hooper's assignment: to win the confidence of the King of Kurash, an enigmatic, British-educated desert aristocrat to whom no one, not even the U.S. Ambassador, has been able to get close." "In a narrative that moves backward and forward in time, Terry puts together the pieces of the puzzle that has haunted him. Is his father a good man? Was he a friend to the young King, or a diplomat-seducer sent to betray him?"--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Cold War, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Boston (mass.), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, espionage, Middle east, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fathers and sons, fiction, Diplomats, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Places: Boston (Mass.), Middle East