Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer - Review

A young presidential aide thinks he is on top of the world. He allows the president's best friend to have a few minutes access to the president on the way to a brief speaking engagement never know once they arrive his world would shatter. He would be disfigure and the best friend would be dead. Years later young ex-presidential aide is still working for the ex-president and sees the dead friend in Malaysia on a speaking tour. Now the mystery begins what really happen that day did the events really happen the way he thought they did. With the help of his old friend Nico, a female report, and another presidential aide who is currently running for a senate seat the Presidential aide Wes Holloway is able to piece together the correct sequence of events and how the big three FBI, Secret Service, and CIA tried to blackmail the government.
This book was very enjoyable and for the most part kept me reading to the very end. There were a few places where it drag but for the most part I really enjoyed it. The look into the emotions that a president and his wife go thru once leaving the White House and the position of such power was eye opening and something I really haven't ever read about in presidential biographies. But this book makes you aware of some of those emotions. It also made me more aware of why the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA do not necessarily get along or work together in the book it explains that it is a way of maintaining a system of checks and balances over their kind of information. This is one of those books you can read over and over again.

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