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Title: A stunning political thriller drawn from today's headlines.
Review: This book is difficult to put down, a real thriller that grips you with a damning portrayal of an ineffectual democratic government in a new cold way with Chinese communists. Set in the present day, this political fiction seems like it's drawn from today's headlines. It's not perfect, and many of the characters seem a little hackneyed. "President Clinton" is too obviously based on the current President of the same name. Then again, the narrators' voice does a terrific job of satiring the hyperbolic, bombastic tone of Clinton's strident critics who find a way to transform the most mundane facts into evidence of conspiracy or moral failing. In this regard, the writing succeeds wonderfully. Along the lines of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, the authors have created a fictional masterpiece that many will mistake for tomorrow's headlines. I would recommend this to older teenagers looking for new challenges.
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