The Book of Fate: a novel by Brad Meltzer

Conspiracy buffs will love this one***** January 1,2007


This novel is well plotted.It opens with an apparently failed assassination attempt on US President Leland Manning. Manning's deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured.Manning loses the election because of a photo which appears to show him exhibiting cowardice as he tries to protect his wife from the assassin. Eight years later Holloway is still working for former-President Manning, doing menial chores. While visiting Malaysia with Manning,Wes catches a glimpse of Boyle, surgically altered, but definitely the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. Holloway then devotes his time to trying to figure out what really happened eight years earlier. He comes to grips with a conspiracy which reached to the highest levels of the U.S. government. I dare you to predict who is the guilty party. Recommended.An excellent novel.