sherryhinman 's review for:

The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
4.0

This was a satisfying read! Through the eyes of a fictitious young congressman, Charlie Marder, The Hellfire Club tells the story of how the swamp was alive and well during Eisenhower's administration. In a mix of real and invented details from the mid-1950s, a mystery unfolds that keeps the reader's interest throughout.

This book was well researched and well written. I've been impressed with Jake Tapper's command of the language ever since, in a CNN interview, he called Steven Miller "obsequious" and a "factotum." But he seems to have the chops as a fiction writer, too.