Nick and Jake: An Epistolary Novel

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Jake discovers a CIA plot to cause a coup in France, and Nick and Jake must do their best to save their country from itself while affairs of the heart change both of their lives and teach them lessons about life and love. This title finds the uproarious comic potential in a chilling period of American history that has alarming echoes in our own.

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Nick & Jake isa hysterical stroll through the cold war era with many of the most colorful charactersof that time . . . It is a wonderful tale of American expatriates dabbling inbig power intrigue without ever forsaking the three-martini lunch --Joseph C. Wilson
Goofy, funny and full of literary in-jokes. . . this is a rollicking good read. --Kirkus Star Review
Nick & Jake is a hysterical stroll through the cold war era with many of the most colorful characters of that time . . . It is a wonderful tale of American expatriates dabbling in big power intrigue without ever forsaking the three-martini lunch --Joseph C. Wilson "Ambassador "

Author Bio

Jonathan Richards is an author, journalist, actor, and cartoonist. His movie reviews appear weekly in the Santa Fe New Mexican and online. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society. His political cartoons are seen regularly in the Huffington Post. He illustrated Alan Arkin's children's book Cosmo. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Claudia Jessup, who is a successful novelist under the name Meredith Rich. Tad Richards is the author of seventeen novels and various books of nonfiction and poetry. He has written plays, screenplays and songs (most recently "Banks of the Hudson," on an album by singer/Congressman John Hall).