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Jul 17, 2007 | ISBN 9780385523042 Buy
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Jul 17, 2007 | ISBN 9780385523042
A savagely funny and knowing political satire about a vice president with an irresistible itch to move up a notch.Godwin Pope, the current vice president of the United States, is bored out of his skull. The one-time software billionaire and hyperconfident alpha male has been reduced to the most empty tasks while the administration of President Jack Mahone sinks lower and lower in the polls with every gaffe and self-generated fiasco. Into his orbit swings Maggie Newbold, the sexy fallen-star journalist with a bad habit of sleeping with her sources, who’s on a rehabilitation tour with Newsbreak magazine. Pope sees in Maggie the instrument of his salvation, and he sets into motion a plot of incredible subtlety (and, he believes, untraceability) whereby the Mahone administration will be so tarred by scandal that even though the president didn’t actually do anything, he’ll have no choice but to resign. Leaving the chair in the Oval Office vacant for Pope’s ascension, just as he deserves. Drawing on our current political climate (the incestuous relationship between the press and the politicians, government agendas driven by scandal and spin, raging ambition and toxic competition at the highest levels) while telling an unforgettable and ingeniously plotted story, The Coup is deliciously cynical, unsurpassingly witty—and dismayingly believable.
JAMES MALANOWSKI is currently the managing editor of Playboy. He was on the founding staff of Spy and held senior editorial positions there as well as at Time and other magazines. He cowrote the HBO film Pentagon Wars, and is… More about Jamie Malanowski
Advance Praise for The Coup“Jamie Malanowski has written a biting and hilarious satire of the Journalistic-Political Scandal Complex. A hapless president and a hooker. An evil, conniving vice president, and a journalist horny for her next big scoop. They fall in and out of power while they fall in and out of bed. Where does Malanowski come up with this stuff?”—Paul Begala, contributor to CNN’s The Situation Room and author of Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush
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