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Writer Carl Granville -- down on his luck personally and professionally -- is approached one day by a hotshot publisher who says she'll pay him a startling amount of money to turn a top-secret diary into a novel. Gift from God or devlish trap? ... The conspiracy he gets tangled in plays on some seriously topical fears.

A starving author is asked to ghost write a political memoir and disguise it as fiction. He is given no details. He is, however, given a sizeable sum of money. Too good to be true? Well yeah, no one would read this book if there was an absense of conflict. What this young author does not anticipate though, is helping facilitate the most dangerous political scandal in the history of the United States.

I bought this book near when it was released in paperback nearly 6 years ago. It was not until I finally got enough of a recommendation from a friend that I got around to reading it. Surprisingly, it is not too often that anyone recommends books to me, though I wish they would (not that I don't have a big enough "to read" pile as it is).

Towards the end things get a little out of hand. Events seem a little too far-fetched in the interest of keeping some characters alive and making other characters less alive. It was a work of fiction, so I guess things like that are allowed, just not too often.

Gideon was a good book. It was a recommendation that I pass on. Protagonist Carl Granville is very likeable. Sometimes main characters are tough to follow; that was not the case in this book.

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