.....a remakable novel blending literay foction, historical intrigue and mythic West......Upton Sinclair mixed with James Carlos Blake and Richard Slotkin.
The time is 1955. The Birth of Rock and Roll, the Beat generation and social rebellion. It was also the era of Covert Operations and clandistine governmental actions. War hero John Rawbons Lourdes, grandsone of an infamous American outlaw and assassin and son of a son of a renowned agent for the Bureau of Investogation sets off on an odysseye through Texas and into Mexico to uncover one of the most foreboding true conspiracies of the time. A profound novel of social protest and the violence and trechery committed to crush it. The Country I lived In is also a moving personal story about love and loyalty. Loyalty to a woman, to one's friends, to one's nation and ultimatrly to the truth - and how all three may well be in conflict with each other.
Genre: Thriller
The time is 1955. The Birth of Rock and Roll, the Beat generation and social rebellion. It was also the era of Covert Operations and clandistine governmental actions. War hero John Rawbons Lourdes, grandsone of an infamous American outlaw and assassin and son of a son of a renowned agent for the Bureau of Investogation sets off on an odysseye through Texas and into Mexico to uncover one of the most foreboding true conspiracies of the time. A profound novel of social protest and the violence and trechery committed to crush it. The Country I lived In is also a moving personal story about love and loyalty. Loyalty to a woman, to one's friends, to one's nation and ultimatrly to the truth - and how all three may well be in conflict with each other.
Genre: Thriller
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