A HIGHLY ACCLAIMED, RIVETING DRAMA A HAUNTING PICTURE OF AMERICA
Could two people be more enviable than Richard and Helen
Bittenberg? They love each other, have two healthy, intelligent
children, and are financially comfortable. Richard is at the top of
his profession. They live in a desirable neighborhood in
Washington, D.C., the capital of the most powerful nation in the
world with its culturally rich and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Yet
Richard is distraught. It seems to him that perverse, irresponsible
forces are destroying the country he loves. Troubled by his
powerlessness, he seizes a daunting, wholly unexpected opportunity
to act. He is drawn into tense, sometimes harrowing circumstances
that tax his conscience, courage, and endurance to the utmost.
Helen worries about his increasingly stressed condition, but she
does not know its real cause. Suddenly, she finds herself in the
middle of a nightmare of her own. Helen and Richard must
independently handle grueling ordeals, one involving secret
political machinations, one involving an agonizing police
investigation. The narrative keeps tightening its grip on the
reader. The milieus of the novel are Washington, D.C., Paris and
environs, and Charleston, South Carolina. Though intensely
suspenseful, this is no ordinary thriller. An absorbing moral drama
with an epic dimension, it forms a trenchant, thought-provoking
commentary on the state of America and the Western world. This
novel has received very high praise. It has been compared to the
fiction of George Santayana, Thomas Mann, and Gore Vidal, as well
as to Whittaker Chambers's autobiographical classic, Witness. CLAES
G. RYN was born and raised in Sweden but has lived in Washington,
D.C., for most of his adult life. He is Professor of Politics and
former chairman of his department at the Catholic University of
America and is the author of a number of scholarly books. He has
taught also at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia,
and Louisiana State University. His teaching and writing focus on
ethics and politics, politics and culture, and the history of
Western political thought. A frequent visitor to China, he gave the
Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Beijing University in
2000 and is Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University.
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