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The Stars at Noon


A Thriller & Suspense Novel


Subgenres:

  • Political Thriller,
  • Historical Thriller,
  • Romantic Suspense
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Literary thrillers set in 1980s Central America
  • Unreliable narrators with secret agendas
  • Love stories unfolding in morally gray, dangerous settings
Publisher Description

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for the anti-war group Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman she begins an affair with?

The two foreigners become entangled in sinister plots and ever-widening webs of corruption, until a desperate attempt to escape the country brings their relationship to a crisis point.

With his customary narrative brilliance, award-winning writer Denis Johnson brings a hellish landscape of moral ambiguity vividly to life.

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