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    Lashback
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    Lashback
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    Lashback

    By Andre Jute

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    LASHBACK
    Book 5 of the 75-Year Saga
    Cold War, Hot Passions
    by André Jute
    The threads are gathering...

    Harvey McQueen, the permanent outsider, the greatest American spy of all time, introduced to President Kennedy at the President's request as "the American James Bond", exposed Kim Philby and dug the Berlin Tunnel into the heart of Russia’s darkest secrets. But he almost landed in jail instead for tapping the CIA's own headquarters cable in the company of the intelligence mandarin Joshua Adams and Colonel Hillel Hirsch, the penniless Jewish refugee who became a legend in American intelligence. Their suspension causes the final breach between Harvey and Jennie when she refuses to accompany him to Berlin where he digs the famous Berlin Tunnel.

    The change of generations comes even to patriots.

    Harvey’s daughter Belinda makes a brilliant career at the State Department and marries Aron Hirsch (Hillel’s son) who is an Israeli anti-terrorist expert but the marriage heaves this way and that under their career stresses. Joshua Adams Jnr and Andrew Drexler are soldiers in dangerous jobs in Vietnam; the same war turns Conrad Drexler into an assassin and starts him on a career which will eventually as the founder of Air America make him the world’s largest transporter of drugs. The Rempton children have other temptations and do not turn out so well, bringing tragedy to their loving parents.

    LASHBACK
    is Book 5 of Cold War, Hot Passions

    “Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.”
    New York Times

    “So bizarre, it’s probably all true.”
    London Evening News

    This is an important book.”
    Sydney Morning Herald

    “Keeps up such a pace and such interest that it really satisfies.”
    Good Housekeeping

    “A masterly story that has pace, humor, tension and excitement with the bonus of truth.”
    The Australian

    “Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral and ecological concerns are important.”
    Times Literary Supplement

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndre Jute
    Release dateDec 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310891021
    Lashback
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    Andre Jute

    André Jute is a novelist and, through his non-fiction books, a teacher of creative writing, graphic design and engineering. There are about three hundred editions of his books in English and a dozen other languages.He was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which for fifteen years he wrote a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers.He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire.

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