Red Sunset

by John Stockwell

The author of In Search of Enemies follows Natalie Wilson & her husband, Doug, to the tiny African nation of Burundi. She is filled with misgivings about both her marriage & her husband's drinking & womanizing.
Stockwell has returned for his setting to the Africa where he spent his childhood & adolesence, as well as six years as an adult. Some of this time he was in charge of the CIA's Angola task force managing the covert activities during Angola's bloody civil war. Two years later he resigned from the CIA, determined to reveal the truth about the Agency's role in the 3rd World. The result was the bestselling In Search of Enemies.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

John R. Stockwell is an American former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years and serving seven overseas tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action". He also served as a reserve officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1955 to 1977, retiring as a Major.

Reviews

[Jith · Rating 3 out of 5]

A stumbling but respectable effort in fiction by an ex-CIA case officer and peace activist. There is unique insight into what a case officers life is like in a developing world station, but its fairly weak in characterization and plot. Still, by his experience, an essential read if you want to understand US Neo-imperialism, and by extension, the cold war and current geopolitics.