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Red Snapper (Paperback)
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Red Snapper (Paperback)
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Red Snapper is an explosive political thriller set on the Caribbean
island of Jamaica in the run up to the violent election of 1980 -
an election in which nearly 900 people were murdered. The story is
set against a background of political change sweeping the
Caribbean. Fidel Castro is the catalyst for this change and has
inspired leaders such as Maurice Bishop Grenada], Forbes Burnham
Guyana] and Michael Manley Jamaica] to reject the imperialists such
as the USA and Britain and embrace the socialist ideology. America
appears unwilling to confront this change as it is still convulsed
by the anti-Vietnam war sentiment sweeping the country. The
President, Jimmy Carter, is more committed to dialogue than
military action. The CIA is more committed to covert action to
destabilise these regimes than dialogue. The Story The story starts
with the CIA field agent, Carlton Davies, witnessing the violent
revolution in Grenada and is one of the last foreigners to leave
before Maurice Bishop and his revolutionaries take over the
country. Carlton Davies, his cover provided by the US Department of
Commerce, gathers evidence that Michael Manley, Prime Minister of
Jamaica, is planning to take Jamaica down a similar route to
Grenada. Manley and Castro are closely aligned and when Castro is
appointed Chairman of the Non Aligned Movement the CIA decides it
is time to put a stop to any further Cuban inspired change. Jamaica
is the battleground. So worried are the CIA about the situation in
Jamaica they appoint Wynton McKenna, Carlton Davies's boss, as the
man to put a stop to Cuban influence in Jamaica. An election is
approaching and there is mounting evidence the Cuban's are
destabilising the country - undermining the police, the defence
force, infiltrating key government departments, issuing propaganda
to discredit the opposition Jamaican Labour Party, perpetrating
violent acts against activists and so on. Tactics designed to
frighten the electorate into voting for the PNP. All the classic
tactics normally used by the CIA. McKenna, hands tied by Carter's
conciliatory mentality, engages the anti-Castro brigades operating
out of Miami. These are the men who fled the country after the
revolution in Cuba, veterans of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and
dedicated to overthrowing Castro. They have also been classified as
terrorists by Carter. But McKenna needs them because he is
operating outside of official government policy. Both the CIA and
the anti-Castro brigade have links to the Mafia. All have designs
on Jamaica, all need each other, all have different agendas and Red
Snapper is about how these different relationships play out. The
story is further complicated by a love affair between Carlton
Davies and the married daughter of the leader of the anti-Castro
brigade Roberto Santos. The story builds to a climax when on 30th
October 1980 the Jamaicans go to the polls to vote in their next
government. An election that resulted in over 900 murders - many at
the hands of Cuban and CIA backed activists. No one knows the true
scale of these external influences but Red Snapper is a story of
what might have happened.
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