The Company You Keep: A Novel by Neil Gordon While in the radical weatherman underground, Jason Sinai was in a conspiracy that led to murder. Twenty years later, he has a different identity, and is leading an entirely different life, when events collude in such a way that he is forced to run from the law again, this time to find his one time collaborators to bring them out and tell the story that will save him and his daughter.
Written as a series of emails, the story is told by a many different narrators, ten years after the story which contains many flashbacks to the events of twenty years earlier. The premise that the story was written as a series of emails is not realistic, because of the amount of dialogue and other details, but it does make for a suspenseful story that unwinds masterfully.
This story has many thorough details of the antiwar movement of the Vietnam war era. Marijuana and other drug use is frequent throughout the story, and the Gordon shows both condemnation for drug use, and an acceptance of the frequency of its usage.
Happy reading.
