NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS тАв┬аA searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.тАФa world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthyтАФand infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. тАв From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun
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"Crisp, buoyant prose."┬атАФThe New York Times Book Review
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 тАЬsexual subversivesтАЭ 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.