Favorite Son
By (Author) Steve Sohmer
Open Road Media
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
30th August 2022
United States
Paperback
538
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Fast, characterful, intricate, surprising...Sohmerknows his way around television, politics, Washington and suspense fiction.Los Angeles Times Book Review
It begins with an assassination. A Nicaraguan freedom fighter is gunned down on live TV while being welcomed to the United States by Sen. Terry Fallon. Though shot and wounded, Fallon, an up-and-coming political star from Texas, survives, and milks the spotlight with help from his ambitious and fiercely loyal press aide Sally Crain.
As the nominating convention looms on the horizon, incumbent president, Samuel Baker, faces an uphill battle in his fight for a second term. His campaign needs an injection of new bloodand who better than Fallon, the newly crowned hero But Bakers existing vice president isnt going down without a fight...
Thrust into the hunt for the assassin, two FBI agents, a grizzled veteran, and a brash rookie, soon learn that nothing is as it seems in the corridorsand bedroomsof power. Political operatives fight tooth and nail to control the narrative, secrets are exposed and exploited, and a deadly virus is weaponized, all to cover up a conspiracy that could topple the American government.
But for the most dangerous man in the world, everything is falling into place, making it easier than ever for his ascendency...
Extremely good reading.The Washington Post Book World
Outstanding.The Cincinnati Post
Intensely plotted, fast-moving.Publishers Weekly
Exciting, scandalous.Kirkus Reviews
Top-notch thriller fiction...Irresistible.Booklist
Steve Sohmer, born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1941, is a Shakespearean scholar, an author of fiction and nonfiction books, a television writer and producer, and the former CEO and president of Columbia Pictures. He published his first novelThe Way It Wasin 1966 and later earned his PhD in Shakespearean studies from Oxford University in 1995. His novelFavorite Sonwas made into a miniseries aired by NBC in 1988. Sohmer currently teaches at UCLA.