![]() ![]() Kennedy tried to stop him without sparking a nuclear World War III. His new novel, “ Back Channel,” re-imagines those harrowing days in October 1962 when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba and President John F. One of his attorneys was a young African American woman, surely a courtroom rarity in those days. In 2012, “ The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln” imagined Lincoln surviving the assassination attempt only to face impeachment from a hostile Congress. “ Jericho’s Fall,” which I reviewed in 2009, concerned a former CIA director who, although dying and possibly insane, had a number of people trying to kill him. His novels - this is his sixth - are often fast-moving, fanciful looks at the upper levels of American politics. His nonfiction books offer serious reflections on politics, race, religion and law. Carter, the author of this fictionalized account of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, is both a law professor at Yale and a prolific writer. ![]()
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