All The Right Circles (okładka  miękka, wyd. 11.2020)

Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russell`s long-awaited second novel, a rich, multi-generational story of money and morals, power and race, sex and sanity, set in a changing America. Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. A successful lawyer, he`s spent years trying to move in all the right circles. But with his literary mother in a sanitarium, his society marriage on the rocks, and his biggest client-Raleigh`s family-owned newspaper the Criterion-facing a hostile takeover, he`s beginning to wonder if it`s really worth it. Step by step readers are drawn into the `non-secret secrets` of an elite that wields power founded on intricate manners and unsolved crimes. Jack`s mentor, World War II hero Hugh Symmes, is haunted by family misdeeds during the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. His client, Ward Forrest, third-generation newspaper heir, portions out liberal duty against riches amassed during the Jim Crow past. His friend, African-American judge Kai-Jana Blount, weighs the call to higher office against deals with men her civil rights crusading family had opposed. Together they face a threat from Wall Street raider Victor Broman, Jack`s former client, who is hell-bent to acquire the Criterion for shadowy patrons. Jack tries his best to `do the hero-ing`-but questions the costs. Eventually, he takes counsel from his friend Lowry, a mysterious Native American mystic, who unveils a different path, away from all the right circles.