When the most powerful man in America is dead—the world itself is up for the taking.
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, just moments after secretly negotiating a peace agreement with an old enemy, U.S. Vice President Robert Benson receives the news only a few VPs have received before him:
William Rutledge, the President of the United States, is dead.
As Benson is sworn in as president and news of Rutledge’s death is made public, the prospect of becoming the next Democratic nominee draws out the most influential figures in Washington. With only three days to rally the Democratic Party, now-President Benson finds himself drawn into a war he intended to leave behind—a domestic political war where party lines are disregarded, the voting process is weaponized, and public servants pursue their own corrupt agendas to win the nomination at any cost. Men like the fiercely ambitious senator from California, Edward Kane; the calculating and entitled Treasury Secretary Gary Brent; and the ruthless and unpredictable Republican nominee, former ambassador Lewis Cannon, all vying for one thing: a chance to become the most powerful person in the world.
With a rich cast and dramatic story that often feels too familiar for fiction, Power Vacuum is a brilliantly gripping work of political intrigue—and the larger-than-life men and women behind our political system.
Previously published as The Nominee.
Genre: Thriller
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, just moments after secretly negotiating a peace agreement with an old enemy, U.S. Vice President Robert Benson receives the news only a few VPs have received before him:
William Rutledge, the President of the United States, is dead.
As Benson is sworn in as president and news of Rutledge’s death is made public, the prospect of becoming the next Democratic nominee draws out the most influential figures in Washington. With only three days to rally the Democratic Party, now-President Benson finds himself drawn into a war he intended to leave behind—a domestic political war where party lines are disregarded, the voting process is weaponized, and public servants pursue their own corrupt agendas to win the nomination at any cost. Men like the fiercely ambitious senator from California, Edward Kane; the calculating and entitled Treasury Secretary Gary Brent; and the ruthless and unpredictable Republican nominee, former ambassador Lewis Cannon, all vying for one thing: a chance to become the most powerful person in the world.
With a rich cast and dramatic story that often feels too familiar for fiction, Power Vacuum is a brilliantly gripping work of political intrigue—and the larger-than-life men and women behind our political system.
Previously published as The Nominee.
Genre: Thriller
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