The New City: A Novel

A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner Stephen Amidons The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it.It is 1973 the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton Maryland is a model community an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of this new city a reality. His best friend is Earl Wooten the black master builder who raised Newton from its foundations. Their teenaged sons Teddy and Joel each the repository of his fathers deepest hopes for the future are inseparable buddies. But cracks begin to appear in this pristiine and meticulously planned community and an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on a fateful collision course.