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Five Novels Featuring Political Scandals and Skulduggery
James Davis Nicoll
Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:00am 35 comments 3 Favorites [+]

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Embarrassing secrets and the lengths to which people in power will go to
conceal them is a plot seed to which many authors (of speculative and
mundane political thrillers alike) have turned, even before Watergate,
and no doubt before the Teapot Dome scandal. The following authors
certainly did.

Double Star by Robert Heinlein (1956)

Lawrence Smith, AKA Lorenzo Smythe, AKA “The Great Lorenzo” is an actor
as talented as he is unappreciated by the public. Talent, obscurity, and
physical appearance make him ideal for a role that will be as unheralded
as it is history-shaping: playing the part of visionary politician John
Joseph Bonforte.

John Joseph Bonforte has been kidnapped. To reveal this would be (for
certain contrived reasons) politically disastrous. Bonforte’s supporters
resort to hiring Smith until Bonforte can be located and rescued. Smith
isn’t a fan of the Expansionist politician but the job is the role of a
lifetime. Literally, as it turns out.

One could make a case that this is Heinlein’s best novel, so it’s a bit
of a pity the whole plot is designed to justify a monumental bit of
electoral fraud (which is claimed to for the greater good).

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