A Capital Calamity - Paperback
by Fred Kaplan (Author)
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."Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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