First published 1986
Stephen Richards Rojack has built himself into everything America admires. War hero. Congressman. College professor. Television personality. But his wife drives him to madness, and in one violent moment, he murders her. Now Rojack runs through New York City's shadows, moving from the respectable world he knew into its brutal underside. The police hunt him. His past catches up. The city itself seems to turn against him as he descends deeper into places where his credentials mean nothing and survival depends on instincts he thought he had left behind in war. Rojack must navigate this dangerous terrain while confronting what he has become and what he was always capable of being.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, american, crime, mystery-thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: New York City
Period: 20th-century
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Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder