A Fado for the River
(By Geoffrey Wells)
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An historical thriller of political intrigue and moral ambiguity.
Gida knew too much: She had a secret that three warring factions wanted. Mozambique was on the verge of revolution, and she knew which ship would be bringing guns into port. She met Raf, a student on vacation. He realizes it’s only a matter of time before the secret police extract her information. She had to vanish, before she “disappeared”.
Raf faked her death.
They fled across the border. Though still in love the strangers parted, disagreeing about their commitment to the freedom struggle, and promising to see each other again.
Loveless years slipped by, until Raf, now an American TV executive is blackmailed accused of murdering Gida. As if destined to be forever caught up in the fado, the shadow song of the Portuguese people, his regret and heartbreak compels him to finally prove he did not murder her.
He must find her.
The cruel beauty of Gida’s Mozambique life in 1974 uncovers the political intrigue and moral ambiguity of his own past. In the dying embers of the failed Carnation Revolution in Portugal he liberates his own emotional apathy as he searches through her treacherous life as a double agent.
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A Fado for the River is a tense literary thriller that will appeal to readers who loved the moral ambiguities in "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver and "The Constant Gardener" by John le Carré, and the romantic politics in the movie "Out of Africa", based on Karen Blixen's memoir.
The novel has the following tropes:
Ethical dilemmas
Shades of grey
Espionage thriller
Social unrest
Political upheaval
To be lawful or good
Good is not nice
Second chance romance”
