Two stories in one! The fictional President loses a testicle and a war while the writer falls in love and gets shot at.
Now Revised!!
Jack, a wannabe serious author, falls in love with Marcie, a failed model who wants to be a Hollywood player and – above all – successful. His own ambitions are wrapped up in hers as she tries to hype his latest political satire into a cult classic and towards an unlikley movie deal that would make both of them rich and Jack a target for the CIA.
‘Fiction is the new truth’, Jack declares, of politics rather than literature. Jack falls into a bizarre odyssey of instant celebrity, crazy actors, crazier producers, and all-purpose sycophants, while being shot at by people he doesn't even know.
In a book no thicker than a decent sandwich, the author flings satire at everything and insults anybody who gets in the way.