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Review of "Killing Che: A Novel" by Chuck Pfarrer

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Killing Che: A Novel
by Chuck Pfarrer

Random House
Hardcover
$26.95 Suggested Retail Price

Its 1967, and Paul Hoyle, an ex-CIA agent has been hired by The Company to squelch a Communist insurgency in Bolivia. The Cold War is at its hottest, with both Russia and Cuba still squarely in the agency's crosshairs. Signs point to legendary revolutionary Che Guevara is leading the rebels, despite the fact that he was widely believed to have been killed years earlier. Hoyle has to deal with the Bolivian army which is riddled with corruption, and get his own crew in position to capture Che by convincing the peasants who live in the Bolivian jungles where Che and his fighters hid that Communism was not the solution to their problems.

Pundits have applauded author Chuck Pfarrer's portrayal of the people involved in this novelization of actual events. Its impossible to know the complete truth of this story, since everyone involved has an overwhelming bias. Given the world as it existed in those days, every version is plausible. What we're left with is an excellent story of political intrigue, romance, the politics of poverty, and a story of a legendary figure in South American history.


Rainbo Electronic Reviews published this review in our October, 2007 issue.



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