The Stars at Noon
A young American woman (unnamed) is working in Nicaragua, supposedly as a journalist but actually as a prostitute; her primary aim is to convert the staggering quantity of cordobas she has accumulated so that she can get out of Nicaragua and back to the the United States via Costa Rica. Inadvertently she takes up with a British petroleum corporation executive turned traitor and/or fugitivea liaison that is nearly her undoing, for she finds herself trapped not only in Nicaragua but in a desperate and futile love/hate tangle. The remarkably poetic and memorable picture of sizzling political unrest in Central America almost but not quite redeems this rather confused and not very interesting tale by the author of Angels ( LJ 8/83) and Fiskadoro ( LJ 5/15/85) - Library Journal
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