Jon Buchan’s “Code of the Forest” Is A Good Ole Boy Political Thriller Set in South Carolina
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In today’s episode number 58, we meet Jon Buchan, author of “Code of the Forest,” where we find ourselves at the intersection of good old boy politics and an attack on the free press.
In Jon’s novel, a powerful South Carolina senator works hard to take down publisher Wade McNabb’s small town newspaper after a story he prints exposes high-level political corruption. To fend off the threat, McNabb forms an uneasy relationship with young lawyer Kate Stewart, and together they put everything on the line to protect the newspaper’s confidential source in a lawsuit that could bring ruin to both of them.
The first sentence of the book introduces us to the antagonist: “Senator Buck Ravenel hunkered in the chill of the Lowcountry dawn, pondering ducks and politics.”
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Jon Buchan is a Charlotte lawyer with four decades of experience representing newspapers and broadcasters in First Amendment disputes but he got his start as an investigative reporter during the Watergate era, and this experience, in addition to growing up in a small South Carolina town, gave him plenty of ideas for the novel, Code of the Forest.
The N.C. Press Association awarded him the William C. Lassiter First Amendment Award in 2000, for his “tireless efforts to defend the First Amendment and to protect the public’s right to know.” The antagonist in Code of the Forest, Buck Ravenel, would have cared very little for such an award, because he was determined to use his position to repress the newspaper that shined a bright light on his form of political corruption.
A native of Mullins, South Carolina, Jon enjoys reading, tennis, fly fishing, nature photography, and all the time he can get with his three grandchildren.
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