The Company You Keep

Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keepis a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road— traveling across America and deep into his past. It is a vivid re-creation of lives lived underground—of battle-scarred veterans, ideologues, profiteers, criminals, and bystanders.

Neil Gordon worked for many years at the New York Review of Books and is currently the literary editor of the Boston Review. He is the author of two previous novels.