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Jacob's Ladder
Chuma Fasseke, president of a determinedly independent African country that dares to reject military aid and develops its own nuclear bomb, confronts his childhood friend, Afro-American Jake Henry, who is sent to his native country as a U.S. military attache
244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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John A. Williams
31 books61 followersJohn Alfred Williams was an African-American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967.
His novels are mainly about the black experience in white America. The Man Who Cried I Am, a fictionalized account of the life and death of Richard Wright, introduced the King Alfred Plan, a fictional CIA-led scheme supporting an international effort to eliminate people of African descent. This "plan" has since been cited as fact by some members of the Black community and conspiracy theorists.
In the early 1980s, Williams, and the composer and flautist Leslie Burrs, with the agreement of Mercer Ellington, began collaborating on the completion of Queenie Pie, an opera by Duke Ellington that had been left unfinished at Ellington's death. The project fell through, and the opera was eventually completed by other hands.
In 2003, Williams performed a spoken-word piece on Transform, an album by rock band Powerman 5000. At the time, his son Adam Williams was the band's guitarist.
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
John A.^^^Williams
His novels are mainly about the black experience in white America. The Man Who Cried I Am, a fictionalized account of the life and death of Richard Wright, introduced the King Alfred Plan, a fictional CIA-led scheme supporting an international effort to eliminate people of African descent. This "plan" has since been cited as fact by some members of the Black community and conspiracy theorists.
In the early 1980s, Williams, and the composer and flautist Leslie Burrs, with the agreement of Mercer Ellington, began collaborating on the completion of Queenie Pie, an opera by Duke Ellington that had been left unfinished at Ellington's death. The project fell through, and the opera was eventually completed by other hands.
In 2003, Williams performed a spoken-word piece on Transform, an album by rock band Powerman 5000. At the time, his son Adam Williams was the band's guitarist.
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
John A.^^^Williams
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August 26, 2015
I do not often read the geopolitical thriller genre, and this book is not going to convince me to start. It wasn't exciting, and a book about a threat to the only nuclear power station in Africa should be exciting. I got bogged down in the quick shifts in perspective and everyone keeping their hand close to the vest.
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