Sunday, August 01, 2021

Q&A with Moisés Naím

From my Q&A with Moisés Naím, author of Two Spies in Caracas: A Novel, trans. by Daniel Hahn.

About the book, from the publisher:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

Plenty.

This is a story of two seasoned spies who work undercover in Caracas, the capital of the country with the largest reserves of oil on the planet. The century-old alliance of Venezuela and the United States has been broken, and Hugo Chavez, a new charismatic military leader, now controls the country. Instead of closed links with Washington, he wants close ties with Havana. The CIA sends its best operative – a woman – to Caracas to lead the effort to stop Venezuela from falling into Fidel Castro’s lap. Castro, in turn, has sent one of his top agents to Caracas with the mission to neutralize the US influence. Inevitably, the two meet – and like each other. A lot happens until they discover who...[read on]
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Q&A with Moisés Naím.

--Marshal Zeringue