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The Committee
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781617757686
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 420
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The 2021 Southern Literary Review Book of the Year
A captivating read and an absorbing tale about the abuses that can arise from intolerance and prejudice. It carries a warning from the past to the siloed, fractured communities of today. --Historical Novel Society
In the late 1950s, Gainesville, Florida, seems to be a sleepy university town. Its residents live, by outward appearances, ordinary lives. And yet the town is far from ordinary. The most private acts of professors, students, townspeople rich and poor, and politicians are under the close scrutiny of a shadowy group of men--the Committee--who use the powers of government and the police to investigate, threaten, and control this increasingly fearful community.
The Committee pits friends against friends and threatens careers and lives in a struggle for the soul of a town, a university, and an ideal. Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, this is a story of love--both licit and hidden--war, friendship, betrayal, compromise, and finally the necessity to stand firm against the encroachments upon freedom by men who believe they are doing God's and the government's righteous work.
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