Epstein's Pancake: a political thriller, by Bjarne Rostaing
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It's the end of the Reagan years, with Iran-contra still smoldering, and G.H.W. Bush looking like a winner in the ‘88 elections. Rob Price is a Nam vet with attitude who's lost his Wall Street job and takes one with a small obscure government agency. When he smells Mossad and a fellow agent is killed, he disappears himself with a satchel of black money. When he turns whistleblower he finds himself with a corporate tiger by the tail and a Eurasian martial artist girlfriend that other guys envy.
Epstein's Pancake: a political thriller, by Bjarne Rostaing- Amazon Sales Rank: #395644 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-23
- Released on: 2015-11-23
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From the Back Cover EPSTEIN'S PANCAKE is as close to Le Carré as we've got on this side of the Atlantic. It's historical fiction in the form of a highly charged political thriller, set in the political and financial corruption of Iran-contra. Like Ricki Tarr in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Rob Price is a junior guy who lets his private life get mixed up in his agency work. Then he knows too much and his ethics kick in. The pace is relentless, friends die, and the climax is horrific. This is a harsh, driven tale by an unusual new writer. -- MICHAEL SEGEDY, author of A Lethal Partnership, Hampton Road
About the Author Bjarne Rostaing was an editor at the SoHo Weekly News, won a First Place AFI Award for a sports video and worked with Uma Thurman in Kiss Daddy Goodnight. As a sports writer, he exposed the 1984 US Olympic blood doping scandal in Sports Illustrated. His previous books include Breeders (St. Marks Press), Phantom of the Paradise with Brian DePalma (Dell) and Bill Walton's Book of Bicycling (Bantam). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Closest You Can Get to the Life of a Spy Without Being One! By LuAnn Braley Reagan. HW. Iran-Contra. North. Viet Nam. Wow, those names take me back!I appreciate the fact that sometimes governments have to do things that rank-and-file 'good citizens' might find distasteful. The bitter disappointment comes in when it seems that a (vast?) majority of our representatives (US/World) are in power as much or more for themselves as for their constituents - and are willing to protect or improve their perceived situation - no matter the cost to others!Historical fiction that highlights the lives of ordinary (and extraordinary) folks against a backdrop of a famous event has quickly become a favorite of mine. I can think of no better example of this than Bjarne Rostaing's political thriller, Epstein's Pancake.At first, the title threw me. How could any book with the word 'pancake' in the title be a thriller? Heretofore any book I read whose title included the work 'pancake' usually was something like "101 of the Food Channel's Favorite Pancake Recipes". Epstein isn't even mentioned in the first two-thirds of the story and his pancake doesn't make an entrance until later. And don't even unpack your syrup because there will be no taste-testing today.Actually, the pancake refers to an emerging technology that most of the powers that be in the world were ready to bribe, blackmail, steal or kill to get their hands on - before anyone else.Enter Rob Price, a veteran of the Viet Nam era, who was recruited to be a courier for a small, unnamed (at the time) government agency. (If someone, someday approaches you with the same offer, you better hope your bicycle is heavily armored and has a few weapons caches, because you will not just be transporting packets of information from one spot to another.)The security agencies (aka spies) of several nations are on Rob from almost day one. His brushes with death become closer and closer as the book goes on, and it is only his professional paranoia, make that skills of observation, that keep him alive. What Price endures in the book makes it hard to understand how anyone with a conscience would want to be a spy. The place where you live has to be your little secret. No friends, nor even co-workers can know its location. The people with whom you work are almost certainly 'more' than the public face they present - and you really don't know from one day to the next who might turn on you.All this ethically messy morality of the Iran-Contra era is masterfully written up by Bjarne Rostaing. Having lived through that time, I can honestly say that he pegs the history perfectly. I became more and more intellectually and psychologically involved as the chapter numbers grew, and experienced (nearly) the same emotions Rob did at each adverse event that happened to him.I read a lot of historical fiction and cozy mystery books, where the endings are 99% 'Happily Ever After'. That is not the case in this book, but then life is rarely all hearts and flowers either. This story could easily play out in real life.If you enjoyed the 'Jack Ryan' series of books and movies, or anything with the name 'John le Carre' attached to it, you will enjoy Epstein's Pancake.(Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an objective review.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. his metaphors are original and wonderfully descriptive. Who else would describe a Metro arrival ... By Charles Kelly Bjarne Rostaing has worn some interesting hats. He has been a jazz musician, sports writer, bike shop manager, and recently a novelist -- this is his second one. Born to leftist parents, his politics remain in the vicinity of of Pete Seeger, though he did his military time in Army Intelligence."Epsteins's Pancake" is set in the 1988 election of the first Bush administration, and Rostaing's distaste for the Bush clan is apparent. The book is a first-person narrative by Nam-vet Rob Price, an ordinary sort of guy with an attitude that came with that war. Rob is broke, out of his Wall Street job, and he starts his education in the spook world by accepting an offer from a tough, cynical agency man. Life becomes interesting, an then dangerous for Rob as he finds himself working under assumed names for his little agency, which is not exactly what it seems to be.The "pancake" in question is an artificial intelligence concept created by the eponymous Epstein, being sold to official-maybe agents. Rob is enlisted to handle and pay a French scientist with the key piece, but if it was that simple it wouldn't be much of a story. No matter how he tries to keep his activities under cover, everyone seems to know what he is doing, including Mossad. Everyone that is, except Rob.Rob's life is complicated by a family situation involving an estranged daughter, which adds a few detours, dangers and complications to a life already complicated and precarious. His emotional connection to the daughter he didn't help raise and hasn't seen in years is the kind of detail that makes him more human than just a character on a page.Epstein's Pancake is a conspiracy tale, with a giant corporation lurking off-stage, and Price's role becomes complicated as unexpected complications pile up. He is navigating a dangerous world in which nothing is what it seems to be, and no one is who he or she claims to be. The book leaves most genre works behind with a depth of writing, character development and descriptive passages that almost overwhelm the reader. Rostaing's eye for detail in setting a scene is almost photographic, his metaphors are original and wonderfully descriptive. Who else would describe a Metro arrival as a train, "grumbling into the station?" The scenes all have a flavor of their own. Rostaing spent years in bicycle racing and uses his experience as background, setting a scene at a six-day race in Ghent, and another in a nightmare when he's on the run.This is not a book to knock off in an evening or two. Imbued with and framed by Rostaing's knowledge of the Iran-contra scandal and other illicit espionage activity of the 1980s, the book is rich in real history, and should be read slowly for the atmosphere of the times and the unnerving complexity of the plot. The political implications, the graphic violence, and the carefully created, three-dimensional characters are very convincing, and his major characters have lives outside the plot that give them depth.Yes, it's a spy novel. But no, it is not an ordinary one. It ranks with the best of the genre, and with the best of current fiction in general. Whatever a reader wants from a work of fiction, this one delivers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. but he’s good at it By Jill Yesko Bjarne Rostaing is an interesting writer, and I never lose interest in his tales.His first book, Breeders, was about horse racing and race, Epstein’s Pancake is about spooks circa Iran-contra. It has the same black humor, though, and strong characters, and a view from the bottom rather than the top. It’s got what thrillers live on – plot, action, and violence, but it turns the genre on its head.Rob Price is a desperate sour guy who takes an agency job because he has to, but he’s good at it, but another man begins to emerge, quirky and detached, with strong opinions that don’t go with the job. He did a hitch in Nam, and it left a bad taste. The other characters are sharply drawn, and move the book along: a nut-case anti-Semite scientist, a casual jaded boss who likes cocaine, and an estranged daughter who is older than her years and sees through her dad.Also his tailor, whom he can no longer afford, who unexpectedly hooks him up with an old friend and a new jobRostaing doesn’t get his characters from central casting. The figurehead boss of his agency is a classic privileged WASP blowhard, and the real boss is a tough, smart, ambiguous man who gets Price’s respect. His Eurasian martial-artist love interest may be the best, smarter than him in many ways, and she saves his inexperienced butt when he gets in over his head playing Don Quixote with a Texas arms merchant as the windmill. The conflict with that corporation is the core of the book, and entitles Rostaing to call his book A Political Thriller. As he fights it, Rob goes from an unfocused resentful man to a fighting liberal, which is a new type for American thrillers. Smacks of late Le Carré, but the flavor is American. Good reading for a long flight.
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