Call Him Savage

Sam Quinlan is a tired reporter who spends his evenings typing the next volume of his popular “Saga of the Sioux” while his wife Lois flirts from the bedroom in a silk nightgown. The calm of an autumn night in Washington is shattered by a crackling radio report that every line of communication has mysteriously vanished across eastern Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. As the silence spreads, Sam’s thoughts drift between his scholarly fascination with the Plains Indians and the ordinary worries of married life.

Before he can finish his cigarette, a terse call from his editor Purcell orders Sam to report to the White House at once, claiming the President needs him. The summons throws the reporter into a sudden, bewildering responsibility that hints at a larger—and possibly dangerous—conflict brewing on the frontier he has been chronicling. Sam must decide whether his next chapter will be written on paper or lived on the front lines.