Lemonade Mouth

Legerdemain is the true story of a U.S. Air Force undercover operative stationed in French Morocco in 1952, a time when the United States was playing a high-stakes game. With the French colonial empire crumbling, a Morocco allied with American interests would enable the United State to maintain several Moroccan airbases that would give the U.S. Strategic Air command front-line capability to strike the Soviet Union. Without France's knowledge, the U.S began secretly storing atom bombs at some of these air bases.

Reading like a novel of high adventure, Legerdemain unveils the working of undercover operatives of Britain's M16, Israel's Mossad, America's CIA, France's Security Services, the Soviet Union's KBG, as well as the French Foreign Legion. Heaphey describes his mission, which took him from the coffee houses and bathhouses of Casablanca, to the fairs of Marrakech and the mountainside villages of Cyprus, and from Berber villages in the Atlas Mountains to Foreign Legion outposts on the apron of the Sahara. Through it all, Heaphey examines the Islamic thinking of the period and unravels geopolitical operations that would continue to set the tone for the Cold War for the decades to come.

About the Author:
James J. Heaphey is professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the State University of New York and holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley