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Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack
Written by Kurt Pitzer and Robert Egan
Narrated by Traber Burns
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Robert Egan could have been a roofing contractor, like his father. Instead, he opened a barbecue restaurant. His interest in the search for Vietnam-era POWs led to an introduction to North Korean officials desperate to improve relations with the United States. So Egan turned his restaurant into Camp David, with pork ribs.#160;#160;During tumultuous years that saw the death of Kim Il Sung, the rise of Kim Jong Il, the Bush #8220;Axis of Evil,#8221; and North Korea#8217;s successful test of a nuclear weapon, Egan advised North Korea#8217;s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, informed for the FBI, vexed the White House, and nearly rescued a captured U.S. Navy vessel. Based on true events, this fast-paced tale shows how far one citizen can go in working for peace.
Author
Kurt Pitzer
KURT PITZER is a former commercial fisherman who has reported from some of the world's most turbulent regions for The Boston Globe, The Sunday Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine. He cowrote The Bomb in My Garden with Saddam Hussein's nuclear mastermind, Mahdi Obeidi, after helping him escape from Baghdad in 2003.
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