The Race (Richard North Patterson)
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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This was going to be another airplane book but I made the mistake of starting it before I started my trip — and I couldn’t quit reading it! The bad news is — by the time I got back from the trip, I’d read a couple more books and the details of this one became fuzzy! So, you’ll have to take my word for it that it is good and gripping. The main character is a great political candidate — charming, intelligent, a real Boy Scout — with a guilty secret and a relationship with a woman of another race. How Corey Grace deals with his past, keeps his integrity and manages his personal life in the middle of a presidential campaign makes a great story. Throw in the requisite religious right-wing zealot and stem-cell research and it just gets better. Patterson did a prodigious amount of research and says in the afterword “I wrote The Race because, like so many of us, I think contemporary politics as practiced are accelerating America’s decline. The 2006 election made one thing clear: millions of Americans want common-sense solutions to our common problems….Even clearer is the central theme of The Race — our craving for authentic leaders who tell the truth as they perceive it, and care more about the country than themselves.” The Race gets my vote.