by Howard Fast · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401323096
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«El compromiso» is Howard Fast's historical novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback, in Spanish.
A war correspondent in India at the end of the Second World War investigates a famine and, on returning to New York, his dealings with communists put him in the sights of the anti-communist witch hunt. The novel portrays the fear and suspicion that dominated the McCarthy era.
Originally published in English as The Pledge in 1988; this Spanish edition appeared in 1989.
For readers interested in historical fiction and in the period of McCarthy's witch hunts in the United States.
Howard Melvin Fast was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. He was jailed after testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
