"A Time Like This" builds fiction around the current world so realistically that it becomes scary. The alternate history begins with the theme that another candidate won the controversial election of 2000, and that the events of the last eight years were met by a different president, a man whose prime drives are to prevent global warming and to avoid military conflict. The story is told from the view of Trevor Wynne, an affable, hard-working, and naive young man straight out of college in the Miami area. His part time job bringing voters to the poles and a degree in public relations lands him a job working first for a new congressman, then the White House as a writer.
The story reveals the dangers of one-sided justification in politics. "A Time Like This" shows that wrong decisions based on warped justifications have wrong consequences, as simple as that, and that the cumulative effect becomes a human tragedy. The scenes at the end of the book become almost surreal.
We haven't left the situations Wm Tate builds his novel around, but with another election looming, the author constructs a strong case for careful thought from the voters to produce a balanced and honorable government. "A Time Like This" is highly recommended, especially at this time.
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