商品簡介
Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, lobbyist Bird McIntyre and Neo-Con Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises that bring the United States and China to the brink of war. By the award-winning author of Supreme Courtship. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
作者簡介
Christopher Buckley was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor ofEsquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of Forbes FYI magazine (nowForbesLife), where he is now editor-at-large.
He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include:Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker,Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia,Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir andThank You For Smoking, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been namedNew York Times Notable Books of the Year.
He has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The Washington Monthly,Forbes, Esquire, Vogue,Daily Beast and other publications.
He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.
