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A Capital Calamity
A CAPITAL CALAMITY - A Novel by Fred Kaplan "Serge Willoughby just wanted to make money and...
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A CAPITAL CALAMITY - A Novel by Fred Kaplan "Serge Willoughby just wanted to make money and have fun. He didn't mean to start World War Three." So begins A Capital Calamity, the rollicking debut novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Fred Kaplan. The "War Stories" columnist for Slate, author of six books, mostly about national security (including The Insurgents, which was a N.Y. Time best-seller and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Kaplan draws on four decades as an insider-outsider observer in this tale of manners-both satire and thriller-about the Washington scene. (The prologue reads, "Much of what follows is true, except for the plot"), it tells the story of a cynical defense consultant whose mischief plunges the world into a cataclysmic crisis. Now, along with the CIA director (who is also a bitter ex-girlfriend), a former school chum who's now an NSA hacker, a garrulous Wall Street tycoon-turned-secretary of defense, and a beautiful intrepid journalist (who may or may not be flirting with him for a big story), Willoughby must now end the crisis, though he has spent his life avoiding commitment to any political cause or purpose. A Capital Calamity is a funny, trenchant, deeply moral novel, in the spirit of Thank You for Smoking, Our Man in Havana, and Dr. Strangelove. Advance praise for A Capital Calamity: "A joyful romp! Just when we need satire more than ever, one of our best political commentators has morphed into a brilliant and irresistible comic novelist."
JOE WEISBERG, creator of The Americans "Fred Kaplan's new book gives us comedy, treachery, ideas, and shrewd cultural anthropology-all against a page-turner background of the highest-stakes international showdown. It's like the cast of Veep in a Tom Clancy book. Readers will learn a lot, and have fun while doing so."
JAMES FALLOWS, former chief White House speechwriter, author of National Defense and other books "Kaplan pulls back the curtain hiding how Washington really works in this only slightly exaggerated, darkly humorous look at 'national security' and 'unthinkable' nuclear war. Sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction, and this true fiction is fun."
RICHARD A. CLARKE, former White House counterterrorism chief, author of Against All Enemies and The Scorpion's Gate
Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Miniver Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781939282545
This title is not returnable
JOE WEISBERG, creator of The Americans "Fred Kaplan's new book gives us comedy, treachery, ideas, and shrewd cultural anthropology-all against a page-turner background of the highest-stakes international showdown. It's like the cast of Veep in a Tom Clancy book. Readers will learn a lot, and have fun while doing so."
JAMES FALLOWS, former chief White House speechwriter, author of National Defense and other books "Kaplan pulls back the curtain hiding how Washington really works in this only slightly exaggerated, darkly humorous look at 'national security' and 'unthinkable' nuclear war. Sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction, and this true fiction is fun."
RICHARD A. CLARKE, former White House counterterrorism chief, author of Against All Enemies and The Scorpion's Gate
Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Miniver Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781939282545
This title is not returnable
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