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The Manager

A Tale of the Cold War

by Christopher Shaw

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"It is better to use craft than force."

Lake Placid, 1982: Backcountry editor Walter Loving picks up a top-coated hitchhiker in the snow outside the Casa del Sol restaurant. It is two years after the Soviet loss to the U.S. in the “Miracle on Ice” Winter Olympic hockey game. The hitchhiker tells Walter he is the “manager” of a visiting Red Army B-team, whose players have kicked him out of the van.

But the manager is really a spy obsessed with restoring Soviet dominance in ice sports. His lover is a spectacular Olympic figure skater fond of quoting the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Together they invade and complicate Walter's life in ways that test his reserves of courage and resourcefulness, with far reaching effects.

The Manager isn’t a typical spy novel, though lines are crossed at great risk and the stakes are high. Satirical, irreverent, earthy, it is above all a novel of the Adirondacks, a novel of relationships, and of love and its varieties.
~ Miller Pond Editions, Saranac Lake, NY, cshaw.net

Product details...

Paperback
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Black & White Paperback, 311 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Feb 28, 2025)
ISBN10: 1977276245
ISBN13: 9781977276247
Genre: FICTION / Literary

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This is Christopher Shaw's third Adirondacks book since his novel, The Power Line, in 2020. He is a former editor of Adirondack Life and the author of Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip With the Gods (W.W. Norton, 2000), and The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship. He taught at Middlebury College for twenty years.
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