| Mockery (Second Edition) Contributor(s): Kraske, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0988042886 ISBN-13: 9780988042889 Publisher: Encompass Editions OUR PRICE: $9.98 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5" W x 8" (0.46 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mockery is a political whodunit: who arranged the two scandals that sank the two major-party presidential candidates and swung victory to the Independent candidate? Sam Walker, a young history-book writer conned into covering the election by his editors, receives an anonymous post-election note: two campaign staffers from different parties colluded to bring about the scandals. He investigates, and the incredible truth pops out: that the scandals were triggered by an innocent mix-up of video tapes. A presidential election, it seems, can be lost as easily as a wallet. Alone with his scoop, Sam writes his how-the-election-was-won book, selling millions of copies -- then discovers that his story was all wrong: much more sinister forces were actually at work. Meanwhile, beautiful Laura Prestini, the campaign worker most responsible for the mix-up, has evolved from national laughingstock into A-list icon Sam attempts to rewrite history -- but will anyone listen? Poignant, comic, and tragic, its plot turning on one clue after another, Mockery describes the elastic condition of truth in a world where media companies control the public narrative, and the Internet, by its free-for-all nature, can churn truth and falsehood into the same stew. |