While at least one JFK biographer reports that the president did have an affair with a 19-year-old, Carter reimagines this situation in some intriguing ways that drive his novel's plot. Carter takes some liberties with the timing and details of political events during the tense autumn of that year, but the broad contours of roles played by key figures emerge from the historical record. Kennedy, and the secret negotiations are a possible means of preventing the Cuban missile crisis from escalating into a devastating exchange of nuclear warheads. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire - and into her own family's hidden past.The year is 1962, the president is John F. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, one of the few black women at Cornell, is asked to go to Eastern Europe to babysit a madman. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance. On the island of Curacao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. Carter's gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction - a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. but they're careful not to tell her that.
If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a "back channel" - a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba.
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