Stephen L. Carter

Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delivers a gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of the Nixon White House, Vietnam, and Watergate. Philmont Castle has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. So hes the last person youd expect to fall prey to a murderer, but when his body is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, the young writer Eddie Wesley, along with the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twentyyear search for the truth. The disappearance of Eddies sister June makes their investigation even more troubling. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics to the Oval Office and Nixon himself.

Two lesser characters from Carter's bestselling first novel, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"--husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle--take center stage in this compelling, literate page-turner that blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America.

La última novela, electrizante y esperada, del autor de El emperador de Ocean Park.Julia Carlyle descubre que, antes de ser asesinado, su ex novio Zeller Zant, un brillante profesor de economía negro, estaba investigando el misterioso asesinato de una niña, ocurrido 25 años atras, y en el que podrian estar implicados: el actual presidente de los Estados Unidos, el principal candidato de la oposicion y el marido de la propia Julia, actual director de la universidad donde Zant era profesor. Un thriller de impacto que revela tensiones raciales y la infuencia politica soterrada de algunos sectores afroamericanos.

Die scheinbar heile Welt der Professorenfamilie Carlyle wird durch einen Mord zerstört. Jemand glaubt, dass Julia Carlyle das Geheimnis des Toten kennt. Doch sie ist ahnungslos. Sie weiß nur: Sie muss das Rätsel lösen, wenn sie ihre Familie retten will. Nach und nach enthüllt sie eine Affäre, die sogar den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten in Gefahr bringt.

It''s Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. The murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands.

October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. Warships and submarines are on the move. Planes are in the air. Troops are at the ready. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a "back channel"--a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk . . . but they''re careful not to tell her that. Stephen L. Carter''s gripping new novel, "Back Channel, " is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction--a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. On the island of CuraCao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, one of the few black women at Cornell, is asked to go to Eastern Europe to babysit a madman. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire--and into her own family''s hidden past.Read less

When "The Emperor of Ocean Park" was published, the "Observer" declared: 'The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation.' Now, with that same astute social observation, narrative drive, and richness of plot and character, Stephen Carter returns us to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where the murder of a renowned African-American economist opens a door on the racial complications of the town's past, on one family's secrets, and on the most hidden and powerful bastions of African-American political influence. At the centre are Lemaster and Julia Carlyle. He is president of the university, she is a dean at the divinity school - African-Americans living in 'the heart of whiteness'.Lemaster's connections lead to the President of the United States, his old college room-mate. Julia is connected to the dead man, Kellen Zant, her lover before she met Lemaster. The meeting point of these connections - a murder committed and covered up in Elm Harbor thirty years ago, and the shocking plans carried out by a fraternity of the 'darker nation' - forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as Julia, guided by clues left her by Zant, closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind his murder. Suspenseful from first to last, galvanising in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people, New England White is a resounding confirmation of Stephen Carter's gifts as a writer of fiction.

La última novela, electrizante y esperada, del autor de El emperador de Ocean Park. Julia Carlyle descubre que, antes de ser asesinado, su ex novio Zeller Zant, un brillante profesor de economía negro, estaba investigando el misterioso asesinato de una niña, ocurrido 25 años atras en el que podrian estar implicados: el actual presidente de los Estados Unidos, el principal candidato de la oposicion y el marido de la propia Julia, actual director de la universidad donde Zant era profesor. Un thriller de impacto que revela tensiones raciales, los secretos de una importante familia y la influencia politica soterrada de algunos sectores afroamericanos.Novela de suspense en estado puro, considerada el mejor thriller literario de la temporada en Estados Unidos.

When THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK was published, the Observer declared: 'The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation.' Now, with that same astute social observation, narrative drive, and richness of plot and character, Stephen Carter returns us to the New England university town of Elm Harbor where the murder of a renowned African-American economist opens a door on the racial complications of the town's past, on one family's secrets, and on the most hidden and powerful bastions of African-American political influence. At the centre are Lemaster and Julia Carlyle. He is president of the university, she is a dean at the divinity school ndash; African-Americans living in 'the heart of whiteness'. Lemaster's connections lead to the President of the United States, his old college room-mate. Julia is connected to the dead man, Kellen Zant, her lover before she met Lemaster. The meeting point of these connections ndash; a murder committed and covered up in Elm Harbor thirty years ago, and the shocking plans carried out by a fraternity of the 'darker nation' ndash; forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as Julia, guided by clues left her by Zant, closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind his murder. Suspenseful from first to last, galvanising in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people, NEW ENGLAND WHITE is a resounding confirmation of Stephen Carter's gifts as a writer of fiction.

The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of "The Emperor of Ocean Park "("Among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A rip-roaring entertainment"--"The" "Boston Globe").When "The Emperor of Ocean Park" was published, "Time Out "declared: "Carter does for members of the contemporary black upper class what Henry James did for Washington Square society, taking us into their drawing rooms and laying their motives bare." Now, with the same powers of observation, and the same richness of plot and character, Stephen L. Carter returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town''s past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence.At the center: Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity school--African Americans living in "the heart of whiteness." Lemaster is an old friend of the president of the United States. Julia was the murdered man''s lover years ago. The meeting point of these connections forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as Julia closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind the murder. Relentlessly suspenseful, galvanizing in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people, "New England White" is a resounding confirmation of Stephen Carter''s gifts as a writer of fiction.

La trama de esta novela, que en Estados Unidos ha merecido el calificativo de obra maestra, se desarrolla alrededor de una compleja familia de la alta sociedad afroamericana, cuyo patriarca, un poderoso juez supuestamente vinculado al mundo del crimen, acaba de fallecer. El era el Emperador que da titulo a la obra, y a su muerte vuelven a emerger las zonas oscuras que ensombrecieron su carrera. Su hijo Talcott intentara unir las piezas de un complejo puzzle de asesinatos y ocultaciones que finalmente acabaran encajando. Una intriga vertiginosa, brillante y excelentemente escrita, un retrato magistral del entramado de ambiciones, corrupcion y mentiras oculto tras el sistema judicial, que mantiene el suspense y la aguda critica social desde la primera pagina.

Judge Oliver Garland has just died in suspicious circumstances. Conservative and controversial, Garland had many enemies. Many years ago, he''d earned a judge''s highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation in front of a televised audience and before the eyes of his family, he had to withdraw his nomination. It was a national scandal, and a private agony, one from which he never recovered. Now, year''s later, The judge''s death raises even more questions than his life did and seems to be leading to a second terrible scandal. Could he have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor at an elite Ivy League law school, entrusting him with ''the arrangements'' - a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father''s turbulent past. When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott must risk life, marriage and reputation, following the clues his father left him.

Years ago, Oliver Garland--an African-American judge--was nominated to the Supreme Court, but was unable to accept because of a shocking scandal. Now he is dead, and one of his legacies is another scandal, the details of which are encoded in a mysterious set of clues that his son Talcott must follow to reveal the truth, terrible though it may be. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

La trama de esta novela, que en Estados Unidos ha merecido el calificativo de obra maestra, se desarrolla alrededor de una compleja familia de la alta sociedad afroamericana, cuyo patriarca, un poderoso juez supuestamente vinculado al mundo del crimen, acaba de fallecer. El era el Emperador que da titulo a la obra, y a su muerte vuelven a emerger las zonas oscuras que ensombrecieron su carrera. Su hijo Talcott intentara unir las piezas de un complejo puzzle de asesinatos y ocultaciones que finalmente acabaran encajando. Una intriga vertiginosa, brillante y excelentemente escrita, un retrato magistral del entramado de ambiciones, corrupcion y mentiras oculto tras el sistema judicial, que mantiene el suspense y la aguda critica social desde la primera pagina.

Un apabullante debut literario, el de este abogado y profesor de Yale que desmenuza los secretos de la clase alta afroamericana. Tras la misteriosa muerte de un juez de talante conservador, su hijo Talcott se sumerge en un juego de intrigas y asesinatos que intentan tapar un secreto que su padre se llevó a la tumba y que, de salir a la luz, involucrará a hombres notables. 

Del autor de El emperador de Ocean Park llega un nuevo y absorbente thriller político ambientado durante la guerra de Vietnam y la administración Nixon. Philmont Castle lo tenía todo: dinero, prestigio y contactos. Nadie habria podido imaginar que acabaria muerto en un aparcamiento aferrado a una misteriosa cruz. Una noche, tras asistir a una fiesta de la alta sociedad negra de Harlem, Eddie Wesley, joven promesa de la literatura, descubre el cadaver accidentalmente. Cuando, poco despues, su hermana Junie se ve involucrada en las actividades de grupos politicos clandestinos y desaparece sin dejar rastro, Eddie se embarca junto a la mujer que ama en una investigacion que se extendera a lo largo de dos decadas. Una reunion secreta celebrada en el verano de 1952 parece ser el nexo comun entre los dos sucesos y, lo que es mas inquietante, su objetivo continua vigente: dar un golpe de efecto que desequilibre las relaciones de poder y cambie la politica norteamericana para siempre.