Same Same

"Brothers under the same skin, Same Same sketches the lives of two talented journalists, one white, one black, in a novel that is part thriller and part morality tale… timely and timeless." — Eleanor Clift, Newsweek / The Daily Beast Same Same is a political suspense novel about friendship, race, and power—told through two men who grew up in the same small Virginia town but lived worlds apart. Samuel Lewis, raised in a working-class African American family, and Hamilton Armstrong III, the only son of a wealthy white family tied to the Ku Klux Klan, meet through mischief and—despite the racial barriers of the pre–Civil Rights era—a lifelong friendship is formed. Driven by a shared love of writing, they build journalism careers in New York, endure dangerous—and raunchy—moments in Vietnam, and eventually land at the same Atlanta newspaper as dueling political columnists: Sam pens the conservative viewpoint Ham delivers the liberal perspective Unexpected excitement enters their lives as a bomb meant for Sam kills a colleague in the midst of their coverage of Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. (Second Edition: Includes a new introduction and new cover design.)