THE OWARD FAST — ^J,jyj The Winston Affair HOWARD FAST by author of Spartacus A dramatic and thrilling novel centering around an Army court-martial in the Far East during World War II. Captain Barney Adams is appointed de- fense counsel for an army lieutenant who, by his own admission, had brutally murdered a British sergeant. Adams had been specially summoned by the commanding officer to plead this case. There were specific reasons for this: Adams had a magnificent battle record; he was a hero; he had been highly trained as a military lawyer; much more important to the commanding officer, he was a regular "Army man," a West Point graduate and the son and grandson of distin- guished army officers. Though no one had any doubts as to the ultimate verdict of guilty, it was felt that the record should show a fair trial with the best possible ad- vocate for the defendant. But Captain Adams showed a highly unpredictable ten- dency to look below the surface of this "open and shut" case. What he found — and what he did about it is the core of this supremely exciting story. The Winston Affair brings a new di- mension to the work of one of America's most important novelists. Not only is it a fine and challenging novel, brilliantly writ- ten—perhaps the best writing that Howard — Fast has done but it is a profound parable of the time we live in. {continued on back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/winstonaffairOOfast THE WINSTON AFFAIR By Howard Fast The Children: 1935 Place in the City: 1937 Conceived in Liberty: 1939 The Last Frontier: 1941 The Unvanquished: 1942 Tom Citizen Paine: 1943 Freedom Road: 1944 The American: 1946 Clarkton: 1947 My Glorious Brothers: 1948 The Proud and the Free: 1950 Spartacus: 1951 The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: 1953 Silas Timberman: 1954 Moses, Prince of Egypt: 1958 THE Winston Affair HOWARD BY FAST CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC NEW YORK © BY HOWARD FAST 1959 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE CARD NUMBER: 59-14020 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY AMERICAN BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS, INC., N.Y. All characters and situations in this novel are fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental To IRV