The Dallas Lee Story

I. The morning of December the eighth arrived at the FMP office the way certain mornings arrive in the aftermath of events that have not yet been fully absorbed: with…

I. The Library of Congress was not a building so much as a declaration. Elias had passed it many times during his years in Washington without going in, in the…

I. The letter took him four drafts. He was not generally a man who revised. His professional correspondence—the memos and notices and brief cover letters that circulated through Barfield &…

The first thing you noticed about Elias Thorne, if you noticed him at all, was the pencil. He kept it behind his right ear with the practiced unconsciousness of a…