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The Seersucker Whipsaw

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery / Thriller / Suspense
Unabridged   9.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 02/28/2012

The Seersucker Whipsaw

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Digital Download ISBN:9781611747690

Summary

An old-school Southerner Clinton Shartelle receives the challenge of a life-time when he travels to the small African nation of Albertia to run a political campaign against a candidate who is heavily backed by the CIA.
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Clinton Shartelle doesn’t seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he’s American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For another, Shartelle is Southern and fiercely proud of it, and his ideas about racial politics veer unpredictably from progressive to rigidly old-fashioned. But Shartelle is the best, and the political future of Albertia is too important to be left to anyone else.

If history is any indication, this first fair election will probably be the country’s last. Rich natural resources make it attractive to businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, opening Albertia up to political corruption. For his part, Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist’s favored candidate wins the presidency. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool.

Reviews/Praise

“Bray’s clever, controlled narration propels the listener to the unexpected ending. [His] delivery of the variety of voices—from Shartelle’s Southern drawl to the natives’ African accents—gives just the right touch of humor to this story of gamesmanship.”
      —AudioFile

Author Bio

ROSS THOMAS (1926-1995) was an American writer of crime fiction and is best known for his witty political thrillers. He won two Edgar Awards and was posthumously honored with the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.

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