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SAME SAME
“Brothers under the same skin, Same Same sketches the lives of two talented journalists, one white, one black, in a novel that is part thriller and part morality tale… timely and timeless.” — Eleanor Clift, Newsweek / The Daily Beast
SAME SAME is a political suspense novel about friendship, race, and power—told through two men who grew up in the same small Virginia town but lived worlds apart.
Samuel Lewis, raised in a working-class African American family, and Hamilton Armstrong III, the only son of a wealthy white family tied to the Ku Klux Klan, meet through mischief and—despite the racial barriers of the pre–Civil Rights era—a lifelong friendship is formed.
Driven by a shared love of writing, they build journalism careers in New York, endure dangerous—and raunchy—moments in Vietnam, and eventually land at the same Atlanta newspaper as dueling political pens the conservative viewpointHam delivers the liberal perspectiveUnexpected excitement enters their lives as a bomb meant for Sam kills a colleague in the midst of their coverage of Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency.
(Second Includes a new introduction and new cover design.)
SAME SAME is a political suspense novel about friendship, race, and power—told through two men who grew up in the same small Virginia town but lived worlds apart.
Samuel Lewis, raised in a working-class African American family, and Hamilton Armstrong III, the only son of a wealthy white family tied to the Ku Klux Klan, meet through mischief and—despite the racial barriers of the pre–Civil Rights era—a lifelong friendship is formed.
Driven by a shared love of writing, they build journalism careers in New York, endure dangerous—and raunchy—moments in Vietnam, and eventually land at the same Atlanta newspaper as dueling political pens the conservative viewpointHam delivers the liberal perspectiveUnexpected excitement enters their lives as a bomb meant for Sam kills a colleague in the midst of their coverage of Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency.
(Second Includes a new introduction and new cover design.)
241 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2026
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