In a powerful historical novel set in Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, arrives to join the crusade against Communism, only to find himself falling for Hawkins Fuller, a State Department official, and struggling to reconcile his political convictions, his love for Fuller, and his devotion to his faith. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on sexual subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives. Moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe, Fellow Travelers is a searing historical novel infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine heartbreak.