Facing the Lions Author:Tom Wicker Facing the Lions is the moving, tragic story of a decent Senator's meteoric rise - and his equally sudden fall. — Rich Morgan, Washington bureau chief for a major national newspaper, flies south for Senator Hunt Anderson's funeral. In trying to draw together the strands of trust, love, and betrayal that had bound him to the... more » Senator - and to the Senator's elegant and sensuous wife, with whom he'd had a short, painful affair -- Rich Morgan stirs a flood of bittersweet recollections of what might have been - and what was.
Facing the Lions reveals the depths of passion, despair, desire, and ambition that flourish in the high pressure atmosphere of Washington politics.« less