A Geography of Secrets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781609530006)

Two men: One discovers the cost of keeping secrets, of building a career within a government agency where secrets are the operational basis. Noel Leonard works for the Defense Intelligence Agency, mapping coordinates for military actions halfway around the world. One morning he learns that an error in his office is responsible for the bombing of a school in Pakistan. And he knows suddenly that he is as alone as he is wrong. From his windowless office in DC to an intelligence conference in Switzerland, and back to his daughter's college in Virginia, Noel claws his way toward a more personally honest life in which he can tell his family everything every day.

Another man learns that family secrets have kept him from who he is and from the ineluctable ways he is attached to a world he has always disdained. This unnamed narrator, a cartographer, is the son of a career diplomat whose activities in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and then in Europe during the Cold War may not have been what they were said to be. He, too, travels to Switzerland, but his quest is not to release himself from secrecy--it is to learn how deep the secrets in his own life go.

With a voice like John le Carr 's and the international sensibility of Graham Greene, Frederick Reuss examines the unavoidably covert nature of lives that make their circles through Washington, DC. A Geography of Secrets is a novel of the time from an acclaimed author who knows the lay of the land.

Author: Frederick Reuss
ISBN-10: 1609530004
ISBN-13: 9781609530006
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2010 pg. 24
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 71