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"Victoria Pierce is not the person she claims to be. As a beautiful farm girl, living in desolation on the Oklahoma range, she escapes her draconian ""parents,"" hitchhikes to San Francisco, and enlists in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving the rigors of basic training, Victoria is promoted through the ranks from Private to Brigadier General. Throughout her evolution, General Pierce and United States Senator Sam Eagan carry on a torrid love affair. Victoria joins Sam's campaign for president, first as his military consultant and later as his vice presidential candidate. No one, not even Sam Eagan, is aware of Victoria's clandestine past, except for one anonymous and demented caller. During the presidential campaign, Victoria befriends reporter Grace Brandon, but Grace becomes increasingly suspicious of Victoria's urban sophistication which belies an agrarian past. This leads Grace into investigative reporting that eventually unravels the truth about Victoria's past. However, before Grace can get to the bottom of the story, Sam and Victoria win the presidential election. Not long afterwards, Victoria ascends to the office of acting president under the 25th amendment. Grace finally completes her investigation and convinces her editor to release a bombshell of a story. America is shocked. Victoria reacts. Will the story require Victoria to resign or can she survive the revelation?"

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Always excited to discover new authors, I gladly accepted this ARC for Julian Mann's novel. With a strong narrative flow and some powerful plot points, Mann weaves a great story of deception, political power, and a journalist's thirst for the truth in this thriller. While Brigadier General Victoria Pierce appears to be the saviour for all things political in the US, she is harbouring some deep secrets from her past, things that a sharp reporter is eager to uncover. However, secrets have a way of stirring up trouble on both sides, as this story suggests. A strong piece by Mann that is sure to keep readers engaged throughout. Political thrillers are just the type of book I enjoy when I want to relax and yet find myself needing some excitement. Julian Mann does just what I hoped he would do with this piece, offering up a strong narrative base and building from there. His development of the multi-pronged narrative proves helpful to better understand some of the nuances in the Vera/Victoria persona, but also offers up some great banter as the narrative progresses. Characters develop throughout the story and tend to attach themselves to the reader with ease. The Victoria Pierce character finds herself dominating throughout, though her past has a way of bleeding into the present at the worst times. Her gumption and desire to have her own way prove to be front and centre, in a piece where power trends rule everything else. Plot points emerge as the story's momentum builds and kept me wanting to know more. The past story creeping into the present proves effective and Mann balances thing well as he reveals much that only the reader knows while the presidential campaign emerges as the core theme of the book. I'd rate the book a strong four stars out of a possible five. While Mann's writing is strong and kept me on my toes, his use of flashback chapters left the book feeling a tad too disjointed. I would have preferred Vera/Victoria's story in more of a chronological order, or at least only brief flashbacks, rather than the large chunks of the story appearing to have been mislabelled as chapters. It left me trying to follow both the early Victoria and present one, where the connections between flashback and flash-forward are not as strongly built as I think Mann would have liked. Still, it was a great book and once I was able to capture the momentum, I was pushing through to learn just what Victoria Pierce would do to garner the power she feels is hers for the taking. Kudos, Mr. Mann, for this political thriller that has so much more to offer. by Matt Pechey

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Julian Mann is a lifelong student of constitutional law. As an academic, lawyer, and judge he marvels at the wisdom locked within the United States Constitution. Madam Vice President was written in response to a deep concern arising out of the twenty fifth amendment and the office of acting president. Although Mann has written a number of articles for scholarly publications, he chose a different medium to express this concern and to reach a more diverse audience. He dedicates Madam Vice President to the liberties preserved in our constitution. It is also his hope that his readers will be entertained while learning a valuable constitutional lesson.

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