I am in serious need a great book that paints three-dimensional characters in the real world.
I loved Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Allen Drury's Advise & Consent. I want a similar book. I have been thinking of Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver/John Voelker or Exodus by Leon Uris.
I need to escape and be engrossed in a new world. Note, I do not like science fiction or fantasy "world building," but "real life" world building.
Thank you!
by boringwhitecollar