Fellow Travelers: A Novel

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Fellow Travelers: A Novel

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Trumanâ€“a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.

Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy. Into this fevered city steps Timothy Laughlin, a recent Fordham graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. A chance encounter with a handsome, profligate State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Timâ€™s first job in D.C. andâ€“after Fullerâ€™s advancesâ€“his first love affair. Now, as McCarthy mounts an increasingly desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on â€œsexual subversivesâ€ in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives. Drawn into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, and clinging to the friendship of a beautiful young woman named Mary Johnson, Tim struggles to reconcile his political convictions, his love for God, and his love for Fullerâ€“an entanglement that will end in a stunning act of betrayal.

Moving between the Senate Office Building and the Washington Evening Star, the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATOâ€™s front line in Europe, Fellow Travelers is energized by high political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine heartbreak. It is Thomas Mallonâ€™s most accomplished and daring novel to date.

Country	USA
Author	Thomas Mallon
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375423482
ISBN	0375423486
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	368
PublicationDate	2007-04-24
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2007-04-24
Studio	Pantheon

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