Winter Warning
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Reflecting our own world like a volatile funhouse mirror, Winter Warning lures us back to the 1980s, an era that could have been ripped right out of our most recent political upheaval. Isaac Sidel should have been vice president, banished to some far corner of the West Wing, but the president-elect has been forced to resign or face indictment for his crooked land deals—and Sidel becomes the accidental president.There’s never been another president quite like Isaac Sidel, New York’s former police commissioner and mayor. There’s a secret lottery created by some bankers in Basel to determine the exact date of Sidel’s death. And Sidel has to outrun this lottery in order to save himself. His greatest allies are not the Secret Service or the DNC, but a former Israeli prime minister who was a explosives operative during the British occupation of Palestine . . . as well as a mysterious billionaire who belongs to a brotherhood of killers and counterfeiters. His only companions in the capital are the captain of his helicopter fleet and a sexy naval intelligence officer who realizes that something has gone amuck at Camp David, when a band of mercenaries arrive with their sights trained on Sidel.
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Isaac Sidel tilts futilely at windmills, with a pistol instead of a lance (hence his nickname, Don Quixote with a Glock), in Charyn's enjoyable if sometimes baffling 12th novel featuring the former New York City police chief turned politician (after 1999's Citizen Sidel). Sometime in the 1980s, Sidel is elected vice president of the United States, but he becomes the commander-in-chief after the president-elect resigns to avoid indictment for shady land deals. Once Sidel moves into the Oval Office, it seems that everyone wants him out, including Gaddhafi, Colombian drug lords, the Aryan Brotherhood, Russian thugs, and "business moguls who recognized as an immediate threat a Stalinist in the White House." A weekend at Camp David turns into a coup attempt. Who's responsible? There's no shortage of bad actors or intrigue, but the maniacal plot and large cast of characters can be overwhelming, especially for those unfamiliar with Sidel's backstory. Still, this bleak vision of America capitalists and criminals are indistinguishable clearly echoes the current state of American political life.
