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Presidential Pardon

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This is a well written and fast paced novel. I finished it over a weekend. Quite honestly, it was hard to put down. The plot involves a journalist's quest to uncover the truth of George Bush's (Senior) involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. Those of us who remember it knew then that his claims about not knowing anything about it had to be a lie. The author resurrects the scandal in some detail and presents it as the background to an excellent story with a very compelling plot.

I have to wonder if this story is entirely fictional. There are elements of it that make a lot of sense in terms of what occurred before and after the scandal broke. Frankly, some of it's scary if true.

Overall, this is an excellent read with a very compelling plot. There's a twist at the end that no one could every predict, but which like parts of the story is very real. Again, I have to question that this is just fiction.

I was surprised at how quickly and consistently Presidential Pardon held my undivided attention. For all the encyclopedic detail on everything from warships, communications systems, military strategy, bars, museums, the layout of buildings and streets, underground political strategy, and spy techniques, it was very easy to read quickly. No small feat for an author to pull off. The book is an insightful history lesson as well, binging together a lot of elements I remember reading about at the time, but never really seeing from this unusual and chilling perspective. It could all be real! It shows just how close we are to the most disastrous of events. One of the signs of a successful writing achievement is when the reader keeps thinking about it long after the last page is finished. That's the effect of Presidential Pardon had on me.

What a great tale of political intrigue from this first-time author! Like Steve Reardon, I found myself believing that this telling was probably closer to the truth than anything we read in the press at the time of the Iran Contra Affair.

Singh does a great job building suspense and keeping the reader hanging. I had a hard time putting the book down. A most engaging read!

Presidential Pardon is educational, believable and thought provoking, baiting and hooking readers into a Woodward & Bernstein style of a fast paced suspensful novel. Good research on the military, D.C. and Iran-Contra affair. Raghav Singh has grapsed the art of weaving insider politics, history, and international intrigue, helping the reader put politics into perspective. Excellent read!

Presidential Pardon
By
Raghav Singh

Raghav Singh takes seemingly unrelated news events from recent history and weaves them into a fiction that is difficult to tell from fact. The excellent writing leads us into personal relationships and a search for truth that leaves violent consequences in its path. The ramifications of the seemingly unrelated events, and the related events as revealed in the fiction, lead the reader to ask questions which seemingly cannot be answered. But answered they are, as the tale reaches an amazing and logical conclusion. This book is in the tradition of Tom Clancy and Ken Follet in Singh's ability to take ordinary events and to weave them into an extraordinary tale.

Singh's ability to paint the portrait of the characters is uncanny and he keeps the characters true to the form he has given them right up to the amazing end of this thrilling novel.