Night of Camp David, Fletcher Knebel
Night of Camp David, Fletcher Knebel
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Night of Camp David

Author: Fletcher Knebel

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

 “What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, “A little too plausible for comfort.”
 
How can one man convince the highest powers in Washington that the President of the United States is dangerously unstable—before it’s too late?
 
Senator Jim MacVeagh is proud to serve his country—and his president, Mark Hollenbach, who has a near-spotless reputation as the vibrant, charismatic leader of MacVeagh’s party and the nation. When Hollenbach begins taking MacVeagh into his confidence, the young senator knows that his star is on the rise.

But then Hollenbach starts summoning MacVeagh in the middle of the night to Camp David. There, the president sits in the dark and rants about his enemies, unfurling insane theories about all the people he says are conspiring against him. They would do anything, President Hollenbach tells the stunned senator, to stop him from setting in motion the grand, unprecedented plans he has to make America a great world power once again.

MacVeagh comes away from these meetings increasingly convinced that the man he once admired has lost his mind. But what can he do? Who can he tell?


About The Author

From 1937 to 1964, Fletcher Knebel worked as a Washington correspondent for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Cleveland's The Plain Dealer, Cowles Publications' newspapers, and Look magazine. He is the author of the number one bestseller Seven Days in May (with Charles W. Bailey II) and more than a dozen other works of fiction. In 1964, the year during which he wrote the New York Times bestselling thriller Night of Camp David, he was named president of the Gridiron Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations for journalists in Washington. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1911, graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and died in 1993 at the age of eighty-one.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 12, 2019

Congratulations, you clever people at Vintage books! You really suckered me into reading this one! I mean, there I was, minding my own business, walking past the shelves at a middling pace, when I saw this paperback book, its white white lettering glaring against a black black background: WHAT WOULD......more

Goodreads review by Cathryn on November 28, 2018

Two important facts: 1. The unofficial subtitle of this work of fiction is: What would happen if the president of the USA went stark-raving mad? 2. It was published in 1965. This novel by Fletcher Knebel was just reissued by Random House, presumably because the premise is so close to what many people i......more

Goodreads review by Kim on January 01, 2019

Read on and off through the night. A prescient book which I read back in the early 70s as I developed a taste for political thrillers. I was reminded of it while watching a segment of The Rachel Maddow show where she talked about a president suffering from mental incapacity, she was reminded of this......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on November 26, 2018

Come for the story of a paranoid, mentally incompetent president, stay for the yuck-yuck racism and unapologetic sexism? People may come to this novel looking for some suggestions for dealing with our current crisis or simply as an old-fashioned political thriller, but I don't think it satisfies on e......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on December 01, 2018

Almost adorable in its naivete considering our current situation, but this was written in 1965. The president in this book is more of a Mike Pence character in his weird Puritanical attitude towards women (which is seen as a warning sign when the Senator who is up for the VP job starts to investigat......more