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Who is Vera Kelly?

"Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself"--Provided by publisher.

My first coup d'etat

and other true stories from the lost decades of Africa
2012
A memoir of postcolonial Africa which offers an intimate look at a time and place rarely seen from a man who is the sitting president of the Republic of Ghana.
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