I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has been compared to a pale ale before, but it turns out not to be unpleasant. Claire Ernsberger wrote this review in the Sullivan County [NY] Democrat :
THE COUP by Jamie Malanowski (Doubleday). This is excellent timing–a comic political thriller. The vice president thinks he ought to be president, and has worked out an elaborate, spectacularly complicated and clever scheme to create a scandal that will absolutely require the president to resign. Before we’re finished, this witty romp will have left almost nobody standing–not the White House, and certainly not the Washington press corps. If you’re good and sick of politics (with still a year of presidential campaigning facing us), clear your palate with a long cold draught of satire.
Thanks, Claire. If ever we meet, the drinks are on me.