The pledge
(Book)

As a foreign correspondent, Bruce Bacon has made his mark as a courageous articulate, and professionally respected reporter. As a human being, he had gained a far greater understanding of the moral dimension of civilization and the fragility of humankind. During his assignment to India, when World War II was coming to an end, he had followed up a variety of leads concerning people of all political persuasions, and as a result of his brief contact with a member of the Communist Party, he found himself mysteriously hustled back to the United States. There he is plunged into McCarthy madness, stripped of his career, abandoned by his friends and colleagues, and railroaded into jail by a congressional committee, His one salvation is the passionate and feisty Molly Maguire, daughter of admirers of the "Wobblies," who grew up in the thirties, a woman who will stick with him through hell or high water and whose love and faith will sustain him in his ordeal.