
Mental State
When his brother, a conservative law professor, dies of an apparent suicide, FBI agent Royce Johnson sets out on a rogue investigation for his brother’s killer. The debut novel of M. Todd Henderson ’93, Mental State (Down & Out Books), is a political thriller that twists and turns, tying together a controversial Supreme Court nomination, the halls of an elite university, and a shocking criminal enterprise.

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