The Last President (with S.W. Barton)

A William Morrow hardcover - a Critic's Choice paperback

A novel that explores the dreadful possibilities of what might have occurred if President Nixon's merry men had not been caught after the Watergate breakin. As this is a "what if" novel, which describes things that -- thankfully -- never occurred, the names have been changed to reflect the fact that it is, after all, merely fiction.

reviews

The authors have done their homework. This is a clever entertainment in which "that son of a bitch," the President, will be impeached.
- Publisher's Weekly

The authors have brought a chilling sense of reality to their fast-paced, smoothly-written thriller. It may be fiction, but it is close enough to fact to be genuinely terrifying.
-- Edith Gold, Miami Herald

Mr. Kurland and Mr. Barton skillfully play on the horrid fascination that Watergate and the Nixon Administration still exert, and the book is hard to put down.
-- The New York Times Book Review

Kurland is an experienced novelist with a dozen or more books to his credit... Barton is a researcher and consultant on intelligence operations and military history. Their qualifications blend ideally to yield a book that reads like lightning, yet is so carefully and plausibly worked out that you are very likely to find yourself with shaking hands and sweaty brow when you realize just how easily this alternate reality might have become our real reality.
-- Richard A. Lupoff, Bay Guardian