It’s ten minutes before eleven, Madam President.Ĭharlotte nodded and looked down at the text once more. You’ll go on the air at eleven-oh-two to give the anchors a couple of minutes to set things up and announce that you are addressing the nation live from the Oval Office. Melanie recognized both behaviors as two of Charlotte’s relatively well-disguised nervous tics. What time are we doing this? Charlotte was tapping her perfectly polished fingernails on the desk and swinging one of her legs back and forth underneath it as she reread her remarks. I input your final revisions myself, Melanie replied in her usual calm manner. Read moreĪre my latest changes to the speech in the version that’s in the teleprompter?" Charlotte asked as she held up a draft with her edits marked in black ink. With an insider’s sharp eye and her trademark winning prose, Nicolle Wallace delivers a timely novel of domestic and political intrigue that is impossible to put down. With all eyes on them and America’s stability on the line, all three women are hiding personal and professional secrets that could rock the West Wing to its very foundations…and change the lives of the people they love most. Her secretary of defense, Melanie, and her press secretary, Dale, must instantly jump into action in supporting the president and reassuring the country that the safety they treasure is in capable hands.īut secrets have always thrived in President Kramer’s White House. But while twenty news cameras are embedded with the president, the unthinkable happens: five major attacks are leveled on US soil. Take “a breezy romp through the corridors of power town” ( USA TODAY) with co-host of The View and former White House Communications director Nicolle Wallace in her electrifying insider novel of three powerful women on a day that will change the country forever.Ĭharlotte Kramer, the 45th President of the United States, has done the unprecedented in allowing a network news team to document a day in her life-and that of her most senior staff.
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