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THE GOLDEN HOUR
A smart, urgent thriller called THE GOLDEN HOUR about a professor-turned-government official who has 100 hours to reverse a coup in Mali through a mixture of diplomacy, backchannels, and military action before stasis takes hold.
This is a thriller about diplomacy, about Africa, about the infighting and territorial battles that go on among the different Departments in US government. The book offers a real insider’s look at the frantic meetings which accomplish little, and how people who wish to affect change need to navigate mazes of bureaucracy and misinformation (with very different features and psychologies depending on their origin).
Todd Moss has written a protagonist, Judd Riker, who is a classic Academic pulled into the Cause. He is a former State Department Brainiac happily on vacation with his family when he’s called back to Washington to reverse a coup in Mali. Riker had developed the 100-hours theory of coup-reversal, and now he has the opportunity to put it into practical action. He has help from the badass female US Ambassador to Mali, from a former professor named Papa Toure (who may or may not be backing the same horse as Riker), and from a mysterious Marine who is assigned to stay with him.
Travelling from the capitol city of Bamako through to Timbuktu and back to Washington, Riker—who likes this job more than he even really cares to admit—sees the clock ticking as Washington’s favored Dictator is overthrown by a former protégé.
Todd Moss is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Washington think tank the Center for Global Development, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. From 2007 to 2008, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs, where he was responsible for diplomatic relations with sixteen West African countries. Moss lives in Maryland.
Todd Moss has written a protagonist, Judd Riker, who is a classic Academic pulled into the Cause. He is a former State Department Brainiac happily on vacation with his family when he’s called back to Washington to reverse a coup in Mali. Riker had developed the 100-hours theory of coup-reversal, and now he has the opportunity to put it into practical action. He has help from the badass female US Ambassador to Mali, from a former professor named Papa Toure (who may or may not be backing the same horse as Riker), and from a mysterious Marine who is assigned to stay with him.
Travelling from the capitol city of Bamako through to Timbuktu and back to Washington, Riker—who likes this job more than he even really cares to admit—sees the clock ticking as Washington’s favored Dictator is overthrown by a former protégé.
Todd Moss is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Washington think tank the Center for Global Development, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. From 2007 to 2008, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs, where he was responsible for diplomatic relations with sixteen West African countries. Moss lives in Maryland.
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Published 2014-09-04 by Putnam |
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Published 2014-09-04 by Putnam |