Special Agent Blair of the FBI has the numbing job of a bureaucrat and the soul of a cowboy. He is about to walk away from the safe world of paper pushing to risk his life infiltrating an armed group of white supremacists called Wrath.
Generation X-er Lauren Miller is an articulate, ironic, and unwaveringly liberal journalist investigating a bombing that Wrath supposedly masterminded. She is also determined to discover how people who have never met a Jew in their lives can be so obsessed with Jews as to want them dead.
Drawn together to investigate an appalling hate crime, these two seeming opposites discover that they may have more in common than a passion for justice--perhaps even a shared heritage.
About the Author :
Susan Isaacs is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Her work has been translated into thirty different languages the world over. She has reviewed books for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Newsday and has written about politics and First Amendment issues. She lives with her husband on Long Island.
Susan O'Malley (a.k.a. Bernadette Dunne) is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Review :
"Alive with eloquent, fluid language and salted with fitting doses of earthy humor, Isaacs' newest novel is a triumph."
-- "BookPage"
"Isaacs' latest is entertaining, yet in examining antigovernment paranoia and the politics of hate, it poses deeper questions about what it means to be an American."
-- "Library Journal"
"Isaacs' writing is quick and witty, and her storytelling is creative and exciting...[A] superbly entertaining novel."
-- "Booklist"
"Susan Isaacs has...a knack for entertaining her reader with the details of American pop culture...Isaacs has taken on a formidable project: to write a multigenerational family drama that is also a romantic comedy and a murder mystery and a serious consideration of weighty issues like anti-Semitism and assimiliation--all without losing her sense of humor or her eye for the entertaining detour."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
"With Isaacs' wry characterizations and unabashedly patriotic...finale, Red, White, and Blue should earn the allegiance of her countless devoted fans."
-- "Entertainment Weekly"
"The jauntiness and frothy exuberance of Susan Isaacs' style in her eighth novel carries you along as if on a wonderful joy ride. She is superb at quick character sketches, the deadly battles between fathers and sons, family frictions, and generational antagonisms."
-- "Providence Sunday Journal"
"With keen humor and fine characterizations, [this] multigenerational saga explores the nature of American identity...Both on the large scale and the small, an absorbing chronicle of the American character."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
