Red Sunset - The Full Story Kindle Edition

Natalie Wilson travels to Bujumbura, Burundi, hoping to repair a broken marriage. Instead, she is drawn into a public chess match engineered to humiliate her by the self‑righteous leader of the expatriate community. Alexis Kabin, an exiled, Ukrainian‑born Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, helps her prepare.But Natalie is only a pawn, and Kabin is the target of a far larger game. As the Cold War reaches a critical moment, Matt Lineman accepts a two‑year contract—unaware that his wife Kate has her own ambitions. Central Africa’s river of violence soon rises around them and ultimately erupts in their home.Watching and closing in, an elite PRODIGY team is maneuvering to persuade Kabin to defect—a strategic coup that could penetrate the Kremlin in Moscow, but one that also threatens to derail a negotiated resolution of the nuclear arms race.~ ~ ~Red Sunset - The Full Story is a powerful love story and an epic chess match in a Cold War thriller. But it’s also a journey back to a pivotal moment in world history, when the two superpowers of the time lined up their nuclear arsenals against each other, their spies mingled amidst diplomatic cocktail parties, and the highest American priority was to recruit an “asset” in the Kremlin.Stockwell writes with elegance and authority. His unique personal and professional background enables him to skillfully, seamlessly connect Cold War machinations and personal and career crises of the superpowers’ agents in an out-of-the-way African capital to the pompous local elite and the family intrigues of immigrant workers living in the impoverished quartier.Love, jealousy, anger, challenge, and growth; all life is here. And, as Stockwell reminds us in this brilliant and moving novel, it can play out very much like a game of chess.— Peter Lewenstein, retired BBC News editor, Author of Bukavu Blues and Pala Pala KillerIn this gripping novel by a former US agent in Africa, a chess match gets center stage as the antagonists in the Cold War play for high stakes, with humans as sacrificial pawns.— Anthony Saidy, International Master of chess, Author of 1983It has been many years since I read a book that, once started, I couldn’t put down. For days afterward, I felt Natalie was alive, somewhere nearby.— Paul Lorraine, business owner and consultant, Angleton, TexasA riveting read. It will resonate with hundreds of thousands like me who have survived our challenges but wondered about those of intelligence agents who are posted abroad.— Frederick Freeman, Ed.D.; Chess player, Vietnam vet, retired educator Read more