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Patterson: I describe it as the American odyssey. It's the hardest thing a person can do. It's a gauntlet in which privacy means absolutely nothing. Every aspect of character is exposed, and every decision can destroy a [candidacy], and perhaps even the candidate, in a way that's...
Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar!
I couldn't have made him up without the example of John McCain, but that said, I want to exempt Corey. He, like my other characters, is very much his own man. His experiences are quite different than John's, and his beliefs as you will note are markedly at...
In Middleton's The Widow, the title character is no virgin, and neither is the male protagonist. Ricardo announces immediately that he's had sex with 1,000 women - 500 of them other men's wives. Such a man is unimaginable as the romantic lead in a Shakespeare comedy.
If you doubt that Middleton equals Shakespeare, now you can read one book, The Collected Works, and judge for yourself. But be warned: like his character Beatrice, you may be unexpectedly seduced, and discover that bad boy Middleton is "a wondrous necessary man."