The Scandal Plan - by Bill Folman (Paperback)

About the Book

A candidate will go to outrageous lengths to land the American presidency, in this satire that's as silly--and smart--as the best of Jon Stewart and Dave Barry.

From the Back Cover

With only a few months until Election Day, presidential- hopeful Senator Ben Phillips is getting battered in the polls and his staff is getting desperate. Smart, capable, fair, and honest, Phillips is the perfect man for the job--but he bores the voting public because he's such a straight arrow. Fortunately, political guru Thomas Campman has had an epiphany: all the candidate needs to revitalize his image--and to clear his path to the White House--is a tiny fake sex scandal, because there's nothing more humanizing than a harmless bit of dirt from the past.

But scandals--even the premeditated kind--rarely go as planned. And this made-up indiscretion is about to snowball into the biggest three-ring circus since Watergate.

Review Quotes

"The story is made up, but the reader's enjoyment of this funny book is real.... An engaging and clever story...and characters worthy of Carl Hiaasen." - Associated Press
"A funny, fast-paced story.... Readers looking for a biting political satire...will be greatly rewarded." - Publishers Weekly