LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas, and one previous novel, God's Favorite. His books have received many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He lives in Austin, Texas.
A sharply drawn send-up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author—about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal life for a career in the Texas House of Representatives Sonny Lamb is an affable, if flound...[SEE MORE]