Last Cold-War Cowboy

In his long-awaited new thriller, James Park Sloan plunges the reader into a world populated by commodities speculators and tenured professors, CIA section chiefs and free-lance technology dealers.One typical denizen is Keith McCallum, a modestly successful professor and some-time family man who revives one of his student articles with a view to publication. The article, which reexamines the overt...