A Shock to the Conscience - Couverture souple

Ramstack, Tom

 
9780595367214: A Shock to the Conscience
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595367216 ISBN 13 : 9780595367214
Editeur : iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

Steve would never have guessed that his name would come up in a conversation in the Oval Office, nor was he aware the discussions involved a brutal Cold War standoff. He was rattled to the core over images of battle he witnessed in a small Spanish town but relieved to be headed home after a tumultuous semester-abroad during his senior year of high school. He decided not to tell anyone about his mishaps but still felt bothered by lingering images of dead people with bloody holes in their bodies, trucks with lifeless legs sticking out the back.He wrote to Katarina, the Spanish girl he met and befriended, shortly after he returned to Kansas, but had a hard time finding the words through a haze of brain damage caused by Soviet poisonings. She remembered him too for his naïve idealism and bravado. She couldn't stand the idea of leaving him to face a desperate fate of political retribution, wondering if she'd ever see him again.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Steve would never have guessed that his name would come up in a conversation in the Oval Office, nor was he aware the discussions involved a brutal Cold War standoff. He was rattled to the core over images of battle he witnessed in a small Spanish town but relieved to be headed home after a tumultuous semester-abroad during his senior year of high school. He decided not to tell anyone about his mishaps but still felt bothered by lingering images of dead people with bloody holes in their bodies, trucks with lifeless legs sticking out the back.He wrote to Katarina, the Spanish girl he met and befriended, shortly after he returned to Kansas, but had a hard time finding the words through a haze of brain damage caused by Soviet poisonings. She remembered him too for his naïve idealism and bravado. She couldn't stand the idea of leaving him to face a desperate fate of political retribution, wondering if she'd ever see him again.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tom Mann is a longtime Washington DC journalist and lawyer. As a teenager in the 1970s, he spent a semester abroad in Spain and still speaks fluent Spanish.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595367216
ISBN 13 
9780595367214
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0595674100 ISBN 13 :  9780595674107
Editeur : iUniverse, 2005
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