Thurman

Thurman is a United States senator of long standing and a decorated veteran, one of those Washington figures whose influence has outgrown any need to advertise itself. Old enough to be a grandfather and fit enough to embarrass men half his age, he moves through the capital with the bearing of a soldier and the patience of an institution. He is the father of Anna, a brilliant engineer, and a shaping presence in the life of Donald, a young congressman he has known since Donald's college years. Thurman is the force behind a colossal construction project in the Georgia hills, a national undertaking of unusual secrecy and scale, and he is assembling talent for it with the confidence of a man accustomed to getting exactly whom he asks for. He hands Donald a piece of the design, and he does not explain more than he must.