Book description
Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a
plot to manipulate the President of the United States.
Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent
and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. The
murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands and
Eddie is determined to find out why he was killed and what the cross
signifies.
But then Eddie's sister Junie becomes entangled in an underground
movement and vanishes...
Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the
President of the United States?
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at
Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also the author
of the bestselling novels
The Emperor of Ocean Park
and
New England White,
and several books of non-fiction. He and his family live near New
Haven, Connecticut.
