Karen Hollander, now 65 years old, looks back on her life as she prepares to write a revealing book about herself and her friends and their activities in the 1960s. One friend calls the book "a suicide package" as the secrets revealed have the potential to be very explosive.
That's about as deep as I'm going to go with the plot summary, as to reveal any more would be a disservice, and I think one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much was that it nearly never went where I was expecting. Andersen does an excellent job of revealing the secrets slowly as the book alternates between the present and the past, and also weaving history into the plot. True Believers starts innocently enough, with Hollander and her friends hooked on Bond novels and carrying out their own imaginary (but yet not imaginary) missions between junior high and high school. As they grow older, the turbulence of the Sixties draws them in and events unfold and are unveiled aptly by Andersen.
I highly, highly recommend True Believers, as it represents the best contemporary fiction I have read in quite a long time./
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