But staying true to form, it’s just a matter of time before Harvey transforms yet again. A sudden religious conversion finds him entangled in a crisis of conscience. Harvey abruptly disappears from the public eye amid rumors that he’s planning a bombshell exposé detailing his fraudulent career as an informant. This pits Albert and his tiny, independent publishing firm against the FBI, the Justice Department, and the United States Senate in a race to find Harvey and his manuscript wherever they are in the vast desert of the American Southwest. Albert’s goals: exonerate an unjustly convicted friend and put an end to the public insanity of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts.
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Harvey is a war veteran, turned failed actor barfly, turned Communist, turned Anti-Communist FBI informer and McCarthy campaigner who's being paid by the government to lie. By 1954, at the age of 28, he's successfully transformed himself into a Red-baiting celebrity, Washington DC socialite, and personal confidant of Joe McCarthy, with little regard for the many lives he's ruined along the way.