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- Title: Black Site: A Love Story
- Author : Robert Lobis
- Release Date : January 23, 2014
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 439 KB
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What has America’s War on Terror accomplished? Did clandestine and arguably illegal and immoral, but none-the-less justified counterterrorism activities make the country safer? Or have they done more harm than good? Part thriller, part dark comedy, Black Site explores these questions, weaving material from the public record into a narrative that unfolds during the years 2000 to 2007.
The principal characters in Black Site are Paul Dean, a football-loving, patriotic mid-level CIA intelligence analyst who is put in charge of a secret prison in Poland, and Laurel Fetzer, an impetuous, seductive young photographer. Trauma and loss shape their actions, and their individual narratives of self-deception and revenge parallel the national narrative of the War on Terror.
Dean has followed a path from college ROTC to military intelligence, the CIA, and then to Pathfinder, a private military contractor that runs a “black site” for the CIA. Laurel has gone through a series of empty sexual relationships before meeting Marwan al-Mufti, a handsome MIT graduate student. Their brief love affair ends abruptly when Marwan mysteriously disappears.
In the events following 9/11, the lives of Laurel and Dean gradually converge. When the body of a secret prison detainee is found in the Baltic Sea, it sets off a media firestorm and a political crisis. At the urging of the CIA, Dean agrees to assume responsibility for the detainee’s death. Despite assurances that he will be rewarded for taking the fall, his life is ruined. While in prison, Dean becomes irrationally obsessed with Donald Rumsfeld. He sees Rumsfeld as the embodiment of the hubris of all the leaders whom Dean has loyally served and by whom he has now been betrayed. Dean convinces himself that Rumsfeld must have engineered his misfortune, and he becomes determined to avenge himself by killing Rumsfeld.
Dean’s transformation is mirrored by Laurel’s. Laurel, when she learns of Dean’s criminal conviction, becomes equally irrationally convinced that he has caused her boyfriend Marwan’s disappearance. Laurel, aided by Jeremy Gordon, a political blogger, Miki Herman, a human rights lawyer, and Miki’s orthopedic surgeon partner Helen Sears, devises stratagems to become involved with Dean in order to trap him. As she does so, she becomes attracted to him in spite of herself. Nevertheless, Laurel is determined avenge Marwan by killing Dean. As Dean stalks Rumsfeld, Laurel stalks Dean.
Black Site climaxes at Rumsfeld’s ranch in Taos New Mexico, when, as Dean takes aim at Rumsfeld, Laurel shoots Dean. In a burst of remorse and passion, their love for one another declares itself, so ending this tragicomic tale of self-deception and revenge.