NICK & JAKE CL

America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the floodtide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on ared-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles isstarting to dabble in nation-building. Into this moment of historywander Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. They begin acorrespondence that leads to a close friendship, and widens to include abizarre cast of characters. From the classic fiction of the period come Larry Darrell (The Razor's Edge), Alden Pyle (The Quiet American), Lady Brett Ashleyand Robert Cohn (The Sun Also Rises), and from real life, Roy Cohn (Robert'snephew) and his pal Davey Schine, Roy's boss Joe McCarthy, the Dulles brothers,the Weavers, French intellectuals Sartre and De Beauvoir, Iranian premier Dr.Mohammed Mossadegh, novelist Jackie Susann, music moguls Jerry Wexler and Ahmed Ertegun, and sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen. Jakediscovers a CIA plot to cause a coup in France, and Nick and Jake must do their best tosave their country from itself whileaffairs of the heart change both of their lives and teach them lessons aboutlife and love. Nick & Jake findsthe uproarious comic potential in a chilling period of American history thathas alarming echoes in our own.