"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." —
Boston Globe
In this novel of political intrigue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just captures the best and brightest of Washington amid turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later.
In the City of Fear
follows the intersecting lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's lover, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.