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From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun, a searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. -- a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy -- and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak.
In a world of bare-knuckled ide
From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun, a searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. -- a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy -- and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak.
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe. "Crisp, buoyant prose." -- The New York Times Book Review
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