Drama Within Drama: Shakespeare's Sense of His Art in King Lear, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest

Literature & Fiction

Egan, Robert

Dramas & Plays

Columbia University Press

There was only one chair in the room. Fluorescent tubes on the ceiling hummed with blue light. The woman smiled and explained in a soothing voice that there were some “procedures” they had to go through. 
“We’re just going to put you under for a few minutes,” she said. One of the officials told me to turn around..
“Do I have a choice?” I lowered my pants, exposing most of my left butt cheek. The woman came up from behind me, and I felt a sharp prick as she pushed in the needle and rammed the solution into my muscle. When she finished, I sat down. 
“Which agency do you work for? CIA?” asked the other male official. 
“I operate independently,” I said. I started to feel good. Very good. I had the urge to laugh, even though nobody had said anything funny. “I’m a lone wolf. And I make burgers for a living. I’m a burger-making lone wolf.”
I must have blacked out for some of it. When I opened my eyes again, the two men were there, but the woman was gone. I wiped my nose, and my hand came away bloody. I suddenly felt so sick and dizzy I thought I’d had a stroke. “What the fuck?
In Pyongyang in 1994, Robert Egan was given Sodium Pentathol, or “truth serum,” by North Korean agents trying to determine his real identity. What was he doing in the world’s most isolated nation---while the U.S. government recoiled at its human-rights record and its quest for dangerous nukes? Why had he befriended one of North Korea’s top envoys to the United Nations? What was Egan after? Fast-paced and often astounding, Eating with the Enemy is the tale of a restless restaurant owner from a mobbed-up New Jersey town who for thirteen years inserted himself into the high-stakes diplomatic battles between the United States and North Korea. 
Egan dropped out of high school in working-class Fairfield, New Jersey, in the midseventies and might have followed his father’s path as a roofing contractor. But Bobby had bigger plans for himself, and after a few years wasted on drugs and petty crime, his life took an astonishing turn when his interest in the search for Vietnam-era POWs led to an introduction in the early nineties to North Korean officials desperate to improve relations with the United States. So Egan turned his restaurant, Cubby’s, into his own version of Camp David. Between ball games, fishing trips, and heaping plates of pork ribs, he advised deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, and other North Koreans during tumultuous years that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the rise of Kim Jong-il, false starts toward peace during the Clinton administration, the Bush “Axis of Evil” era, and North Korea’s successful test of a nuclear weapon in 2006. All the while, Egan informed for the FBI, vexed the White House with his meddling, chaperoned the communist nation’s athletes on hilarious adventures, and nearly rescued a captured U.S. Navy vessel---all in the interest of promoting peace. 
Egan parses U.S. foreign policy with a mobster’s street smarts, and he challenges the idea that the United States should not have relations with its adversaries. The intense yet unlikely friendship between him and Ambassador Han provides hope for better relations between enemy nations and shows just how far one lone citizen can go when he tries to right the world’s wrongs.

Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack

Biographies & Memoirs

Pitzer, Kurt

Leaders & Notable People

St.Martin's Press

Seymour Krelborn discovers that the unusual plant he bought in hopes of bringing in business to the florists shop is a carnivorous creature that demands human blood

Little Shop of Horrors

Humor & Entertainment

Egan, Louise

Movies

Tarcherperigree

Describes, in text and photographs, the steps in making various kinds of pasta from growing and harvesting the wheat through the grinding of the flour to making the dough and shaping the final product.

From Wheat to Pasta: A Photo Essay (Changes)

Children's Books

Children's Cookbooks

Childrens Pr

Describes in photographs and brief text the steps involved in making pasta

From Wheat to Pasta

Describes sorority and fraternity life, looks at hazing, songs, pranks, games, and fund raising events, and lists school, membership, motto, traditions, and prominent alumni for national fraternities

From Here to Fraternity

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Bantam]

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.  During tumultuous years that saw the death of Kim Il Sung, the rise of Kim Jong Il, the Bush “Axis of Evil,” and North Korea’s successful test of a nuclear weapon, Egan advised North Korea’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.

HighBridge Company

What's happening to Puerto Rico!? Robert Egan created eight stories to tackle this question. To truly embrace uncertainty and call this island home, he would need memoir and magical realism, time and trouble, the call of the coqui and the hum of the generator. His stories couldn't be the adventure of a passing storm: they had to find their place in Maria's enduring aftermath.

Eight Hurricane Maria Stories from Puerto Rico

Humor

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Egan, Robert. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Egan, Robert