Los Lavanda

Washington D.C., early 1950s: a world of pure ideology, excessive alcohol consumption and secret files, dominated by such larger-than-life figures as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta and Joe McCarthy. Into this troubled city comes Timothy Laughlin, a recent Fordham graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against communism. A chance meeting with Hawkins Fuller, a handsome and spendthrift State Department official, leads to Tim's first job in Washington, D.C. and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. Now, as McCarthy makes an increasingly desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it increasingly dangerous to lead this double life. Caught in a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, while clinging to the friendship of a beautiful young woman named Mary Johnson, Tim struggles to reconcile his political beliefs, his love for God, and his love for Fuller... a tangle that will end in one act. of surprising betrayal.