The Candidates: Based on a True Country

Fresh on the heels of ‘Hubris Falls’, Matthew S. Hiley’s acclaimed first novel, comes ‘The Candidates: Based On A True Country’, which is sure to keep those who appreciate his dark wit ecstatic. 


Skip LaDouche and Harry Pinko are the two frontrunners campaigning for the Presidency of the United States. They are what we’ve come to expect from our leaders: self-serving and unqualified.


When the reality television star that they are both having an affair with turns up murdered, the candidates take campaigning to its most primal form… complete and total destruction of the opposition.


Nothing is sacred in this violently comic short novel from Matthew S. Hiley. Politics-as-usual and pop-culture are thoroughly skewered in one of the most absurd and entertaining stories ever told.