"[A] suspenseful satire... It's old-school politics with a caustic jambalaya of trouble... Set in the very near future, this fun romp through high-stakes politics plays in interesting parallels to the antics of the current 2016 presidential race."
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Booklist "[An] inside scoop on the kooky backstory of American politics... This is, after all, a special kind of manufactured public entertainment, a world of engineered leaks and staged surprises... Stevens has assembled all the accoutrements for a crazy political novel."
--Ron Charles,
The Washington Post "No, this book is not about the 2016 presidential campaign. But the fact that even these aspects of the novel are in sync with current events validates its author's credentials as a cagey veteran political operative.... J.D.'s rueful, acerbic commentaries... make up the best part of this fast-paced carnival of bile, guile, and blow-ups. In an era as politically mercurial as our own, even the most far-fetched events depicted here sound utterly plausible."
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Kirkus Reviews
From the co-authors of
Game Change and
Double Down, praise for
The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear: "Stuart Stevens is that rare authorial animal: a political novelist who actually understands politics, who appreciates how the ambition to run the country both shapes and warps character, and who can lay it all down on the page with verve and aplomb. Gimlet-eyed, mordantly funny, and staggeringly well-timed,
The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear is the perfect fictional echo of the savage surreality playing out in real time on the national stage."
--John Heilemann
"Vivid, fresh, and funny. The characters are nuanced, the dialogue zings, and the bracing breeze of authenticity gusts from every page. Stuart Stevens knows a heck of a lot about a lot of things--politics, the press, T.V., D.C., New Orleans, love, lust, ambition, family ties, and the pressures and promises of the world's most powerful job. It all comes together in this terrific book. Smart, crafty, spot-on timely, entirely refreshing and hugely entertaining,
The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear is a great read and a total winner."
--Mark Halperin