Swinehart on Adams’ ‘The Room and the Chair’

David PesciMarch 11, 20101min
Swinehart: Adams revives a moribund genre with great writing, infectious characters and a relentless pace.

In The Chicago Tribune, Kirk D. Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews The Room and the Chair, the second novel by Lorraine Adams, a Pulitzer-winning former journalist for The Washington Post. Swinehart calls The Room and the Chair a “a fiercely intelligent political thriller set, by turns, in Washington, Iraq, Dubai, and Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.” The novel builds on the momentum of Adams’ first book, Harbor, with a new story of political and international intrigue that resonates deeply with current events and fears.