A suspenseful thriller of high-stakes political deception, from a former State Department official with years of insider access to Washington politics “An entertaining tale of good intentions gone awry in the nation’s capital.” —The Washington Post Peter Cutler is a respected Princeton professor living a quiet academic life. Then one afternoon, an old college friend makes him an offer he can’t refuse: the position of foreign policy adviser to the Democratic presidential candidate. Cutler takes the job and eagerly jumps into the political fray. But he soon finds out that the power politics of Washington are a far cry from the comforts of university life. The Power Game tracks Cutler’s rise in government and his realization that survival requires participation in a ruthless game of tug-of-war in which everyone struggles to promote their own agenda.
A suspenseful thriller of high-stakes political deception, from a former State Department official with years of insider access to Washington politics “An entertaining tale of good intentions gone awry in the nation’s capital.” —The Washington Post Peter Cutler is a respected Princeton professor living a quiet academic life. Then one afternoon, an old college friend makes him an offer he can’t refuse: the position of foreign policy adviser to the Democratic presidential candidate. Cutler takes the job and eagerly jumps into the political fray. But he soon finds out that the power politics of Washington are a far cry from the comforts of university life. The Power Game tracks Cutler’s rise in government and his realization that survival requires participation in a ruthless game of tug-of-war in which everyone struggles to promote their own agenda.
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