Election Fiction

When truth is stranger than fiction, a little old-fashioned murder and mayhem offers respite. Crime Writers of Color led me to FIB agent Jade Harrington (Don’t Speak, below) a few months back. Other novels of presidential elections may ease the weeks ahead.

• T. D. Patterson, The Vote (2004). Following a tie in the Electoral College, a congressman must protect his family from people who will stop at nothing to secure his vote.
• Vince Flynn, Act of Treason (2006). After a bomb explodes in the motorcade of a candidate for president, CIA agents follow the trail abroad and back to the corridors of Washington.
• Barbara D’Amato, Foolproof (2009). In an international search for terrorists, two 9/11 survivors uncover a plot to hijack a U.S. presidential election.
• Leon Uris, A God in Ruins (2009). On the eve of the presidential election, a buried secret threatens to destroy the challenger’s ambitions and tear the country apart.
• J. L. Brown, Don’t Speak (2016). An FBI agent must untangle the web connecting a conservative talk-show host, a woman candidate for president, and an unidentified killer.
• Alan Russell, Political Suicide: A Thriller (2019). A PI foils the attempted murder of a young woman who suspects her would-be killers are acting on behalf of a presidential candidate.