Killing Che, Chuck Pfarrer
Killing Che, Chuck Pfarrer
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Killing Che

Author: Chuck Pfarrer

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 18 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Political


Synopsis

A rich, complex historical novel in the spirit of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, Killing Ché is a personal and political thriller that pits history's most infamous insurgent against a conflicted and world-weary CIA officer.

The year is 1967; Vietnam is in flames and half a world away few realize that a firefight on a jungle road in Latin America is the beginning of a new and secret war. In the Ñancahuazú Valley of Bolivia international revolutionary Ché Guevara leads a band of guerillas determined to liberate a continent. Paul Hoyle, a CIA paramilitary officer, joins a team of operatives sent to crush the Bolivian insurgency. When a recovered backpack reveals that Che Guevara is in command of the rebels, the stage is set for a duel between world ideologies.

This powerful, tragic story transports the reader into the heart of the Bolivian jungle and into a world of noble truth and glorious aspirations. Pfarrer writes of love and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, and the tragic death of an ideal.

At the center of the struggle are two complex women who may hold the keys to each man's destiny: Tania, Che's crucial undercover operative and occasional lover who, unbeknownst to him, is a "deep placement" of the KGB; and Maria Agular, mistress of the Bolivian Minister of Information, whom Hoyle dares to trust with both information and his emotions.

Pulsing with action, populated by rich characters, and filled with authoritative and inside details from the author, a counter insurgency expert, Killing Ché is a stunning recreation of a conflict that sealed the fate of one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial figures.


About Chuck Pfarrer

Chuck Pfarrer is a counterterrorism consultant to both the U.S. and foreign governments. The author of Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL, he is also a screenwriter whose credits include The Jackal, Darkman, Red Planet, Hard Target, Virus, and Navy SEALs. He lives in Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cbricephd on August 20, 2007

Former Navy SEAL, Chuck Pfarrer, has produced a beautifully written and exhaustively researched historical novel that follows a barely fictional CIA contract agent, Paul Hoyle, on his mission to engineer the killing of Cuban revolutionary hero, Che Guevara, during his 1967 insurgency against the Ame......more

Goodreads review by Josh on December 23, 2011

I can't recommend this book, although I found it somewhat interesting for what I learned about a portion of recent history I knew next to nothing about. But since it's fiction based on history I didn't know what to trust and what to regard as mere speculation. As far as the writing itself, it wasn't......more

Goodreads review by Anuranjan Roy on March 03, 2018

This book does have some pretty significant flaws, yet it was worth reading. The lead character Paul Hoyle's overbearing white saviour complex in 'poor & hopeless' Bolivia, two extremely shallow love stories and run-of-the-mill spy thriller cliches did test my patience but the book was redeemed by w......more

Goodreads review by Mike on January 24, 2008

Not a bad story, per se... but the author spent way to much time with the whole Hoyle/Maria thing. Without all the squishy Harlequin love story bull crap it might have been a semi-readable novel. As it is, it’s merely tolerable.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on October 17, 2015

Really is a fantastic book, I've read it several times and am still compelled by the drama... and even more it's a real story......more