STOCKWELL, John.
Red Sunset.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
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First Edition of Red Sunset; Inscribed by John Stockwell to Television Book Interviewer Connie Martinson
First edition of the first novel by the former CIA officer whose 1978 exposé In Search of Enemies made him one of the agency's most prominent critics. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the television book interviewer Connie Martinson, "For Connie, A great interviewer and a wonderful person. John Stockwell." The recipient, Connie Martinson, was the creator and host of the long-running program Connie Martinson Talks Books, which from 1979 until 2015 presented nearly three thousand interviews with authors ranging from Maya Angelou and Ray Bradbury to Gore Vidal, Rosa Parks, and Al Gore, and whose archive is now held at Claremont Graduate University. Martinson interviewed Stockwell about Red Sunset at Claremont College in 1982, the year of the novel's publication. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
John Robert Stockwell was an American CIA officer who became one of the agency's most outspoken critics. Over thirteen years and seven tours of duty he rose to lead the CIA's Angola Task Force during the covert operations of 1975, then resigned and published In Search of Enemies (1978), a landmark insider account of the agency's clandestine activities. Red Sunset, his first novel, followed in 1982. Set in the small African nation of Burundi and drawing on his long experience in Africa, it allowed Stockwell to advance in fiction his conviction that the Cold War would end peacefully. The story follows Natalie Wilson, who travels to Burundi with her troubled husband Doug, against a backdrop of intrigue informed by the author's firsthand knowledge of covert operations.
Red Sunset.
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