All the Right Circles by John Russell

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Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russellโ€™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.

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Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. A successful lawyer, heโ€™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 clientโ€”Raleighโ€™s family-owned newspaper theย Criterionย โ€”facing a hostile takeover, heโ€™s beginning to wonder if itโ€™s really worth it.

Step by step readers are drawn into the โ€œnon-secret secretsโ€ of an elite that wields power founded on intricate manners and unsolved crimes. Jackโ€™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, Jackโ€™s former client, who is hell-bent to acquire the Criterion for shadowy patrons. Jack tries his best to “do the hero-ing”โ€”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.

All the Right Circles by John Russell
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