***Editor's Choice,
NEW YORK TIMES
*** A literary coup d'etat, that ponders "What would the White House be like if U.S. Presidents of the past were not restricted by the time-honored hallmarks and traditional behavior of the office, leaving them free to do whatever they wanted, anytime and anywhere?"
THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir
pulls back the curtain on the “new norm” for America’s highest office, with a collection of bizarre new stories by a diverse group of renowned authors that take readers across the chasm of reality into an alternate universe—where Nixon takes a wacky psychedelic trip with Elvis Presley; where a time-traveling renegade targets members of the George Bush administration with disastrous results; where a spy seizes a sudden opportunity for power after Woodrow Wilson’s stroke. The stories are outlandish but—when it comes to the White House of today—no longer implausible.
The line-up of award-winning authors includes
Eric Beetner
,
Peter Carlaftes
Sarah M. Chen
Angel Luis Colón
S. A. Cosby
Nikki Dolson
Mary Anna Evans
Adam Lance Garcia
Danny Gardner
Alison Gaylin
Christopher Chambers
Kate Flora
Greg Herren
Gary Phillips
Alex Segura
Travis Richardson
S. J. Rozan
Abby Vandiver
, and
Erica Wright
.
In an era where the bar for what is acceptable has shifted beyond what the founding fathers ever imagined,
THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT
is a highly recommended unique creative act of resistance, and a must-have for fans of politics, noir, and speculative fiction.