Book Review: Unwanted President

A highly entertaining story, based on true events, and inspired by a certain conspiracy theory

By Moristotle

My paperback copy of edRogers’ political thriller, Unwanted President, arrived on Monday, occasioning me to review it on the publisher’s website, which happens to be Amazon.com. For readers who haven’t been to the website yet, to purchase their own copy of the book (and read my review), I thought I’d provide that link and the review itself:

As the editor of this book, I had the pleasure of reading it several times. My appreciation for the story, for its intricacies, for the artistry of its plotting grew with each reading. And, since it’s the third of edRogers’ books that I have edited, my sense that he is a storytelling genius was confirmed. I frankly don’t know how he does it. I certainly couldn’t.
    The title of this book, coming as it does midway through the first year of a widely unwanted President Donald Trump, will make many readers think the book is about Trump, but it isn’t. In fact, it’s more about George W. Bush, who was in office when edRogers wrote the first draft. But, then, it isn’t about Bush either. It’s a fiction, a fiction that skillfully lays on the events of those years a sort of “conspiracy theory” that edRogers learned about from examining the library of someone he knew in California years ago. While perhaps implausible in certain details, there are elements of the theory that seem to have to be true – the undeniable power of international business and money interests to dictate many things for many people.
    So, this novel is not only a conventionally entertaining “thriller,” it is also a thought-provoking exploration of the way certain things in our world seem to work. Enjoy the story, enjoy the provocation. And enjoy the characters, the daring and resourceful reporter, Tom Warring; his supportive boss, Ted Waters; the driven daughter-in-law of the president’s assassin, Mary Cahill; the Finn Carl Gustaf, who flies Tom and Mary to St. Petersburg to meet the Russians....It’s quite a cast, and their colorful existence is another piece of evidence that edRogers is indeed a genius storyteller.

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