The committee

"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 "[Watson] does an excellent job of portraying a time, place, and culture without assigning contemporary values where they didn't exist...The dialogue is realistic, and the pacing,...