A Fine and Dangerous Season
Written by Keith Raffel
Narrated by Luke Daniels
4.5/5
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"A compelling story, written with a sure hand, that keeps you intrigued. But watch out for the gut punches. They come often and unexpectedly. Raffel definitely has his game on." -Steve Berry, author of The King's Deception
"A rare historical novel-exciting and utterly believable-with Jack Kennedy as you've never seen him. Raffel is a master storyteller. I loved A Fine and Dangerous Season." -Gayle Lynds, author of The Book of Spies
The phone rings in the California home of businessman Nate Michaels before the sun is up on October 24, 1962. An hour later he's on an Air Force jet to Washington. Michaels hasn't seen or spoken to President Kennedy since they met at Stanford in the fall of 1940, but now JFK needs his help to defuse the threat posed by Soviet missiles in Cuba. In both the Pentagon and the Kremlin, pro-war generals want a showdown, not a humiliating compromise.
As the world races toward nuclear holocaust during a fine and dangerous autumn, Michaels finds himself spinning in a maelstrom of statecraft, espionage, love, and betrayal.
Keith Raffel
Born in Chicago, Keith Raffel has lived in Palo Alto since he was eight. As a boy growing up there, he remembers eating with his parents at JFK’s old haunts like L’Omelette, long gone, and selling soft drinks at football games at Stanford Stadium, since rebuilt. He watched as local orchards filled with cherry and apricot trees were replaced by tilt-up buildings filled with software engineers and MBAs. He founded UpShot Corporation, Silicon Valley’s first cloud-computing company, which won numerous awards. In addition to his career as an entrepreneur, Keith has been counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, a college writing instructor at Harvard, a candidate for Congress in California’s Twelfth District, a professional gambler at Bay Area horse tracks, and chief commercial officer at a DNA sequencing company. (He seems to have career ADD, doesn’t he?) An avid reader of crime fiction since picking up his first Hardy Boys mystery, Keith became a published author in 2006 with Dot Dead, which Bookreporter.com called “the most impressive mystery debut of the year.” These days he stays busy following the San Francisco Giants and writing his novels just around the block from where he grew up.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Womanizer JFK has called upon his estranged college friend to come to Washington, D. C. to help diffuse a crisis in Cuba? The Russians are placing nuclear weapons on the Cuban shores. Interesting twist on the historical events at the time. Despite knowing the results, there's still a lot of nail-biting!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this fictionalized account of the Cuban Missile Crisis, told from the point of view of Nate Michaels, a Hewlett Packard engineer called to Washington DC to help the president with the delicate negotiations between the US and the Soviets. Nate and the President Kennedy are old friends--or at least they knew each other before the start of World War II and long before JFK became president. At this point, Nate wants nothing to do with the man for reasons that become evident as the novel progresses.Nate is the son of a labor leader with strong ties to the Communist party which brought him into contact years ago with Anatoly Voklov, a Soviet operative. Or envoy. (Or Russian guy hanging around, I never was sure of what his title was) Voklov requests to speak to Nate, thus beginning Nate's odyssey as an secret negotiator between the US and the Soviets at a time when the world was inches away from nuclear war.Nate is responsible for saving the world.Raffel gets the details right, including the names of the network news correspondents of the time--Huntley and Brinkley, Sander Vanocer, Nancy Dickerson. He also manages to weave real historical characters like John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, General Curtis LeMay and Robert McNamara into a fictional story, not an easy feat.