Presidents' Day
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Publisher Description
A shadowy billionaire pulls the strings behind a presidential election in this political thriller by a national bestselling author.
In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. Each has a closet where his skeletons are locked away—and one man holds every key.
Julian Mellow has spent his life amassing a fortune out of low-risk, high-reward investments. But the one time in his life he got in over his head, he left another man holding the bag and made an enemy for life, one who has nothing to lose. Now, Mellow has an even greater ambition—to use his wealth and power to select the next president of the United States—and to make that man do his bidding, in business and beyond.
In a story that ranges from the United States to an African nation where a brutal dictator reigns and a resistance movement lurks in the alleys, Presidents' Day spans the globe to weave together a brilliant portrait of politics at its most venal, where murder is a part of the political process, where anyone's life is up for sale, and where one man—that bad penny of an enemy—could bring the whole kingdom toppling . . .
This gripping read comes from the author of Losing Isaiah, the basis of the film of the same name, and The Semper Sonnet, praised by Phillip Margolin as "a wildly imaginative thriller."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Super-rich New Yorker Julian Mellow, the ambitious villain of this melodramatic political thriller from Margolis (Semper Sonnet), believes that "Every election is stolen; it's only a question of which thief gets away with the prize." Mellow uses fixer Billy Sandifer for almost all his dirty work, beginning with a blackmail scheme to make Sen. Harry Lightstone, a Pennsylvania Republican, a dark horse candidate for president. Meanwhile, jobless Zach Springer, who was once Mellow's trusted financial adviser until his boss betrayed him, obsessively tracks the man's every move from his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Using Sandifer as his tool, Mellow reduces the Republican field (a fatal plane crash, a drug scandal, a murder) while dictating Lightstone's agenda. Mellow even foments his own plans for the tiny African nation of Kamalia, where his only child, Matthew, was murdered two years earlier. Margolis spins a rather simplistic tale of wealth and power run amok.
