Fletcher Knebel - Bibliography

Bibliography

• Seven Days in May (1962) (described above).
• Convention (1964), also written with Bailey, about a woman from the Midwest who serves as a delegate at a major political convention.
• Night of Camp David (1965), about a President of the United States who may be insane.
• The Zin Zin Road (1966), about Peace Corps workers in Africa caught in a brewing revolution.
• Vanished (1968), about the political repercussions arising from the sudden, mysterious disappearance of the top aide to the President of the United States during a contentious re-election campaign.
• Trespass (1969), about black militants taking over homes owned by rich whites and demanding that title be turned over to the militants as the first step in creating a black nation in the American South.
• Dark Horse (1972), about a minor official chosen to replace a Presidential candidate who died shortly before the election.
• Crossing in Berlin (1981), about an American man assisting an East German woman in escaping East Germany.
• Sabotage (1986), about sabotage of oil tankers by yakuzi organized crime figures.

In general, Knebel's works are products of the times in which they were written. For instance, the delegate in Convention changes her vote after learning that the candidate she had originally favored is using a computer to track personal information about the delegates. Vanished involved concerns over superpower nuclear proliferation during the Cold War. Trespass revolves around black militancy of the type that faded in the late 1970s.

Also, Fletcher Knebel was a staunch liberal who was "suspicious of the size and power of the American military" and intelligence community (as he wrote in Dark Horse)--and many of his novels reflected that point of view.

As representations of the concerns of the times in which they were written, Knebel's novels can provide valuable insight.