Last Cold-War Cowboy - Softcover

James Park Sloan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555472524 ISBN 13: 9781555472528

Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks, 1988

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Southeast Asian studies professor Keith McCallum is hired as a consultant by a Texas mogul trying to swing an Indonesian oil deal. In Jakarta, McCallum is kidnapped and given a copy of the "confession" of an Indonesian double agent. Suddenly the professor is in apparent danger, pursued by various heavies. But who are they: CIA? FBI? KGB? McCallum's 15-year-old paper on the 1965 Indonesian coup figures in the plot, and it seems that almost everyone he talks to ends up dead of a "heart attack." Readers will enjoy the story's sophisticated accoutrements: a frenetic pace, fine Indonesian color, McCallum's wryly amusing persona and a couple of twists at the end. But since narrator McCallum doesn't participate in the main CIA plot (winkling a renegade, arms-dealing ex-agent out of Libya), his story may seem a bit peripheral. In addition, most of the action occurs offstage or years ago, and the ambiguous endingwhich leaves unclear the identity of the title characteris something of a letdown. Sloan also wrote War Games and The Case History of Comrade V.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1555472524
• ISBN 13: 9781555472528
• Binding: Paperback