A Capital Calamity by Fred Kaplan
"Serge Willoughby just wanted to make money and have fun. He didn't mean to start World War Three." So begins A Capital Calamity, the rollicking debut novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Fred Kaplan.The "War Stories" columnist for Slate, author of six books, mostly about national security (including The Insurgents, which was a N.Y. Time best-seller and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Kaplan draws on four decades as an insider-outsider observer in this tale of manners-both satire and thriller-about the Washington scene. (The prologue reads, "Much of what follows is true, except for the plot"), it tells the story of a cynical defense consultant whose mischief plunges the world into a cataclysmic crisis. Now, along with the CIA director (who is also a bitter ex-girlfriend), a former school chum who's now an NSA hacker, a garrulous Wall Street tycoon-turned-secretary of defense, and a beautiful intrepid journalist (who may or may not be flirting with him for a big story), Willoughby must now end the crisis, though he has spent his life avoiding commitment to any political cause or purpose. A Capital Calamity is a funny, trenchant, deeply moral novel, in the spirit of Thank You for Smoking, Our Man in Havana, and Dr. Strangelove.FRED KAPLANFred Kaplan is the "War Stories" columnist for Slate, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Boston Globe, and the author of six non-fiction books, one of them (The Insurgents) a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This is his first novel.
Fred Kaplan writes the War Stories column in Slate, contributes frequently to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section, and blogs about jazz for Stereophile. A Pulitzer Prize winning former Boston Globe reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow, he has also written for the New Yorker, New York, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and other publications. He is the author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, also available from Wiley. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781939282545 |
| ISBN 10 | 1939282543 |
| Title | A Capital Calamity |
| Author | Fred Kaplan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Miniver Press |
| Year published | 2024-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 178 |
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