Wet Work (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Buckley
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: New York, Florida, and South America
- Principal Characters: Charley Becker, Natasha Becker, Felix Velez, Frank Diatri, Antonio Fabiano Iglesias Y Cáceres (“El Niño”), Soledad
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Politics, Murder or homicide, Assassination, Corruption, Drug trafficking or dealing, Cocaine, Wealth, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: New York, Florida, South America
The end of the Cold War was good news to almost everyone except writers of thrillers featuring international intrigue. The Nazis had made excellent villains during the 1930’s and 1940’s and were succeeded during the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s by the less style- conscious but equally sinister Soviet communists, with their Iron Curtain, KGB, Gulag Archipelago, and all the other apparatus of repression. The best thriller writer of all time, John le Carré, was evidently nonplussed by the thaw in the relations between the East and the West. The Little Drummer Girl...
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