In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of its legendary dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega.
The author of six works of nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, he lives in Austin, Texas.
About author(s): Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.
With an award-winning journalist\'s eye for detail, Lawrence Wright leads the reader toward a dramatic face-off in the Vatican embassy, where Noriega confronts his psychological match in the papal nuncio.
Drawn from a historical record more dramatic than even the most artful spy novel, God\'s Favorite is a riveting and darkly comic fictional account of the events that occurred in Panama from 1985 to the dictator\'s capture in 1989.
But with a million-dollar price on his head and 20,000 American soldiers on his trail, Noriega is fast running out of options.
In his desperation, he seeks salvation from any and all quarters -- God, Satan, a voodoo priest, even the spirits of his murdered enemies.
Congress, the Justice Department, the Colombian mob, and a host of political rivals.
A former friend of President Bush, Fidel Castro, and Oliver North, this universally reviled strongman is on the run from the U.
S.
It is Christmas 1989, and Tony Noriega\'s demons are finally beginning to catch up with him.
In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of its legendary dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega
