Facing the Lions — Tom Wicker

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 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.