A Fine and Dangerous Season, Keith Raffel
A Fine and Dangerous Season, Keith Raffel
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A Fine and Dangerous Season

Author: Keith Raffel

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/18/2014

Synopsis

The phone rings in the California home of businessman Nate Michaels before the sun is up on October 24, 1962. An hour later he’s on an Air Force jet to Washington. Michaels hasn’t seen or spoken to President Kennedy since they met at Stanford in the fall of 1940, but now JFK needs his help l to defuse the threat posed by Soviet missiles in Cuba. In both the Pentagon and the Kremlin, pro-war generals want a showdown, not a humiliating compromise.As the world races toward nuclear holocaust during a fine and dangerous autumn, Michaels finds himself spinning in a maelstrom of statecraft, espionage, love, and betrayal.

About Keith Raffel

Born in Chicago, Keith Raffel has lived in Palo Alto since he was eight. As a boy growing up there, he remembers eating with his parents at JFK’s old haunts like L’Omelette, long gone, and selling soft drinks at football games at Stanford Stadium, since rebuilt. He watched as local orchards filled with cherry and apricot trees were replaced by tilt-up buildings filled with software engineers and MBAs. He founded UpShot Corporation, Silicon Valley’s first cloud-computing company, which won numerous awards. In addition to his career as an entrepreneur, Keith has been counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, a college writing instructor at Harvard, a candidate for Congress in California’s Twelfth District, a professional gambler at Bay Area horse tracks, and chief commercial officer at a DNA sequencing company. (He seems to have career ADD, doesn’t he?) An avid reader of crime fiction since picking up his first Hardy Boys mystery, Keith became a published author in 2006 with Dot Dead, which Bookreporter.com called “the most impressive mystery debut of the year.” These days he stays busy following the San Francisco Giants and writing his novels just around the block from where he grew up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mahlon

A well-written historical novel about the Cuban missile crisis. The narrator was very good, it's just a shame his Kennedy accent left a lot to be desired.......more

Goodreads review by Scottnewyork

Let me tell you the novelty of being cold and in the dark wears off after just a few days. Keeping sane during eleven days without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy required a lot of patience, a good supply of batteries for my radio and LED lantern light, and my Kindle, which I could recharge dur......more

Goodreads review by Jan

Historical fiction - a skillful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's a well-written thriller, posing as a novel. It's very believable and fast moving. Sometimes requiring rereading, just to make sure what you think you just read was what you actually read. A great, clever book...all the way t......more

Goodreads review by Book Lovers

Historical fiction is a challenging genre. An author not only faces the difficulty of creating a narrative, but he or she must also examine how much "truth" to actually put into the work. It is fiction after all. But if a writer is going to use history as his or her framework, then something of that......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

Keith Raffel is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Last year I read “Drop by Drop” and it ranked as one of my favorite books of the year. It was on my list of one of the top 10 books for book clubs to read. Raffel’s new book, “A Fine and Dangerous Season” is equally as good. Keith Raffel b......more

Quotes

“A compelling story, written with a sure hand, that keeps you intrigued. But watch out for the gut punches. They come often and unexpectedly. Raffel definitely has his game on.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Columbus Affair and The Jefferson Key“A rare historical novel—exciting and utterly believable—with Jack Kennedy as you’ve never seen him. Raffel is a master storyteller. I loved A Fine and Dangerous Season.” —Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Spies“It’s been half a century since the Cuban Missile Crisis brought us to the edge of the abyss. It’s about time we got a page-turning thriller this good about it. The stakes are incredibly high, the action swift and chilling, the writing sleek and smooth. And the historical characters, from JFK to General Curtis LeMay, leap off the page. It may be fiction, but you’ll believe every word of it.” —William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Harvard Yard and The Lincoln Letter

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