O: A Presidential Novel - Rilegato

The truth only fiction can tell. Sometimes only fiction can tell the truth...
Aspiration and delusion. Knowledge and power. Victory and defeat. Set during the presidential election of 2012 - and written by an anonymous insider who has spent years observing politics and its players - O
includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world - some invented and some real. Meet :
O, the President of the United States, chafing under the demands of office. His senior aides are running him too hard and, to his irritation, have advised him not to play golf on the weekends. To win re-election, he realizes he may have to adopt political methods that abandon the change he's supposed to represent.
Cal Regan, a rising political star and Beltway insider who takes over the president's 2012 campaign after O's veteran campaign chief is forced to resign because of an affair with a teenage prostitute.
Avi Samuelson, the president's closest adviser, whose rumpled, melancholy appearance belies his effectiveness.
Maddy Cohan, a dazzling young journalist whose sharp reports for an upstart website are a frequent source of conversation among the political elite and whose relationship with one of her sources could complicate her career.
Walter Lafontaine, one of O's earliest supporters who, despite being left behind when O went to Washington, yearns for a larger role in his hero's re-election campaign.
Tom 'Terrific' Morrison, a one-term governor who is emerging as the likely nominee and a formidable opponent. Privately derisive of O, Morrison seeks to run a classic change campaign, similar to O's historic march to victory in 2008.
Allen Knowles, a billionaire CEO and political donor who has secret information that could be damaging to Morrison's campaign.
As a work of speculative fiction about how the battle for presidency will be fought in 2012, the details in O will ultimately be overtaken by real-life events. But no chronicle is more likely to convey the interior lives of the people in the midst of that campaign - the issues they will confront, the compromises they will make, the lengths to which they will go for victory. O is a novel for anyone who wants to understand what world leaders are really thinking...
About the author
The author of O wishes to remain anonymous.