Why read The Committee?

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Professor Tom Stall’s career and life are threatened when a nefarious government-affiliated group of men begin investigating the private acts of innocent people in late 1950s Florida.

The 2021 Southern Literary Review Book of the Year

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Paul Wilborn

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The book is set at the University of Florida in 1958, when the state legislature was purging suspected Marxists and gays from the state university system. Watson uses these actual facts to weave a story that speaks to the purges going on in Florida today. His ambitious professor, Tom Stall, wants to rise in his department, but there's a huge price he must pay.
As usual, Watson keeps the story moving briskly and sets up an exciting ending. His characters are strong and believeable. He went to school in Gainesville, and later ran the writing program at Eckerd College, so…

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