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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Twenty-Two Twenty-Three Twenty-Four Twenty-Five Twenty-Six Twenty-Seven Twenty-Eight Twenty-Nine Thirty Thirty-One Thirty-Two Thirty-Three Thirty-Four Thirty-Five Acknowledgments Guide Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication One Acknowledgments Start to Contents Pagebreaks of the Print Version Cover Page 1 2 5 6 7 9 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 MORE CRITICAL PRAISE FOR STERLING WATSON For The Committee “In this sharply crafted novel, his seventh, [Watson] recreates the era with rich detail and a creeping sense of dread … The Committee is the kind of story that makes you hope it can’t happen here—but reminds you that it already has.” —Tampa Bay Times “Watson has written a fine, eloquent, powerful book and its message will remain timely. Let us heed its warning even as we savor the story so well told in its pages.” —Southern Literary Review “Historians, of necessity, are skeptical of historical fiction. But there is the atypical work, such as Patrick Smith’s A Land Remembered, that historians praise for its historical verisimilitude. Sterling Watson’s The Committee has a narrower scope than Smith’s Florida epic, but Watson accurately conveys the emotional turmoil induced in Floridians by the Johns Committee in the 1950s.” —Florida Times-Union “[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 “The Committee is at once a historical, political, and academic novel, and it is one that succeeds on all these fronts … Those who yearn for a return to the solid, established 50s may not know just what it is they are wishing for. The Committee should serve as a wholesome reminder.” —Reviewing the Evidence “The Committee takes place on campus, but deserves to be included with those ‘academic’ novels like Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe, Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, and Jane Smiley’s Moo, all books that burst out of their scholarly settings to light up the characters and societies they live in. And life in Gainesville in the 1950s doesn’t bear looking at too closely: Without being preachy or didactic, Watson’s book exposes the race, class, and gender wars running below the picturesque pathways like tainted water; there’s been some progress since then, but the reader is led to wonder how meaningful it’s been … This book will hold you to the very end, and after.” —Creative Loafing Tampa “The Johns Committee, a real, if lesser-known, McCarthy-esque group active in Florida, hovers over this tense, character-driven novel set in 1958 … Watson ably evokes a sense of the McCarthy era’s regional impact in this thought-provoking story.” —Publishers Weekly For Suitcase City “[T]he telling is masterful … Sit back and enjoy Watson’s latest. It’s better than bourbon on the rocks.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Hypnotically beautiful novel … Paranoia has been defined as ‘seeing too much pattern.’ Author Watson can make us sweaty victims of that madness, partaking of it, suffering from it, and loving every minute.” —Booklist, starred review “Watson’s magic is in pacing and taut prose … Suitcase City is an absorbing thriller, a vivid adventure in a bright, humid, perilous underworld … [A] tense, bloody thriller with a strong sense of place and a soft heart.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review “A noir gem … A deeply contemplative and darkly poetic prose style complements the well-crafted plot.” —Publishers Weekly “A solid revenge tale … There is plenty of action to be had in this suspense tale, but it is the examination of the characters’ motivations that really makes it shine. For fans of Lee Child and Nicci French.” —Library Journal “Watson weaves … questions about race into a plot that takes one bloody turn after another, a crescendo of violence that ends with a day at sea that might be the most chilling of all.” —Tampa Bay
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