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...through Spiro Agnew's first venture into written fiction (we're not counting spoken or historical fiction). Sirana is Sirana Amiri, the "lush" "beautiful" "lovely" Iranian secret agent sent to fool the "hero." The "hero" is Zack Miller, the intellectual from NYU and personal adviser to Vice President Newton Canfield...
...plots in The Canfield Decision and The Company are stellar examples of the key to popular success. They're simple, sensational, they contain little moral complexity and the narrative is one easy, continuous flow...
Agnew sets his novel in 1983. The Democrats are in office, second-term President Walter Hurly is vying with Vice President Porter Canfield over important foreign policy matters. Canfield is seeking his party's nomination and to gain the spotlight he stumps around the country on the off-year-election circuit saying the U.S. should give Israel nuclear weapons. This posture threatens to ruin the latest round of SALT talks; nevertheless, Canfield won't follow lame-duck Hurly's orders to lay off the Israel stuff. The press--which under the appellation of 'Operation Torchlight' is secretly conspiring to boost...
HURLY SUBMITS to the consequent pressure of public opinion, sends the weapons, and a Cuban missile crisis in reverse occurs in the Mediterranean. Canfield mounts almost unanimous congressional and cabinet support for a face-off with the Ruskies, and then suddenly evidence comes to light involving the V.P. in a scandal-to-end-all-scandals. This evidence centers around the title's 'Canfield Decision,' the V.P.'s decision to be co-opted by murderers and to participate indirectly in other criminal actions. I won't give that part away because, in part, the suspense works, and also because...
...British citizen who claimed descent from Polish kings, Radziwill fled his native land during World War II when the Soviets imprisoned or killed several members of his family. The toothbrush-mustached prince, a naturalized British subject since 1951, became a highly successful London realtor. He met Lee Bouvier Canfield in 1957. After divorcing their respective mates, they were married in 1959, and one year later Radziwill campaigned in U.S. Polish communities for his brother-in-law, Presidential Aspirant John F. Kennedy. The Radziwills, who had two children, were divorced...