Shelley's Heart

Published for the first time in Australia, this is arguably the best novel ever written about Washington, D.C.

The first presidential election of the twenty-first century has been stolen, after having been bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends.

The riveting plot turns on the consequent battle for power between President Bedford Forrest 'Frosty 'Lockwood, the current occupant of the White House, and his...
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Published for the first time in Australia, this is arguably the best novel ever written about Washington, D.C.

The first presidential election of the twenty-first century has been stolen, after having been bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends.

The riveting plot turns on the consequent battle for power between President Bedford Forrest 'Frosty 'Lockwood, the current occupant of the White House, and his supposedly defeated rival, former President Franklin Mallory. In this vast, captivating novel, Washington's high-powered world of enmity and friendship, and loyalty and cunning, is rendered with a unique, behind-the-scenes realism.

Shelley's Heartis so gripping and so striking, even frightening, in its plausibility, that McCarry's devoted readers may have difficulty bearing in mind that this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America is a work of the imagination rather than an act of prophecy.