If politics interests you, this book is for you. If politics disgusts you, this novel is tailor-made with you in mind as a reader.It's 2019, and another U.S. presidential election season
approaches-but this isn't an election like any other.In Vinay Kolhatkar's taut debut, Senator Olivia Allen-brilliant, beautiful, married-signs onto the Democratic presidential ticket unaware of
the powerful forces that seek to either control her or destroy her. Among her opponents is Frank Kenneth Stein, a straight-talking billionaire who would rather be forthright than President, and
a Republican vice president who is more interested in preserving his own power than fighting for the people.The unfolding campaign takes place against a backdrop of national crises as the
United States lurches from one disaster to another. China dumps U.S. bonds. Iran threatens nuclear attack. Hyperinflation almost strikes the U.S. and riots sweep the country, killing thousands.
As the campaign wears toward its electrifying climax, Olivia discovers the horrifying truths about her fellow travelers and is forced to make a decision that will change the U.S. forever.
Kolhatkar creates an entirely plausible plot grounded in the events of our own world. A novel of deep understanding, sophisticated commentary, and incisive dialogue, The Frankenstein Candidate
will change the way you look at politics forever."If you don't control your politicians, they will control you."San Francisco, Friday, September 11, 2020Never before had so many congregated to
listen to what they did not want to hear.More than thirty thousand people had filled the San Francisco Giants' AT&T stadium, exactly nineteen years to the day after the attack that rocked
America. Yet there was no Giants game on that evening. They were all there to listen to Frank Stein. Everyone had an opinion about him. Some hated him, some loved him, and there was nothing in
between. Frank Stein made sure of that.Not since the WikiLeaks scandal in December 2010 had a civilian so enraged the upper echelons of power. Many of them wished for him to be dead or in
jail.Frank Stein had committed no crime. He didn't even possess any information that could implicate anyone who had. Frank Stein was not leaking classified information. He didn't even possess
it.Why then did so many powerful people want him dead? Why did so many ordinary people want to listen to what he had to say?Frank Stein was no ordinary civilian. A smart, well-heeled,
middle-aged and professorial money manager who had made billions was not anyone's idea of an underdog. In a high-stakes presidential campaign of the most powerful country on earth, though, he
was the quintessential underdog candidate: an outspoken independent pitted against the might of the two dominant political parties with their carefully orchestrated campaigns. A first-time
politician who had so ruffled the feathers of the Washington eagles and the media in their pockets that there was no turning back turning back now��tein had well and truly crossed the Rubicon.
