On the island of Curaçao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. Carter’s gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction-a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. but they’re careful not to tell her that. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a “back channel”-a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba.
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