"O. The truth only fiction can tell. This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and sefl-regard. The novel includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world - some invented and some real. As a work of speculative fiction about ways in which the battle for the presidency will be fought in 2012, the details in O will ultimately be overtaken by events. But no chronicle is more likely to convey the interior lives of the people in the midst of that campaign - the issues they confront, the compromises they will make, the lengths to which they will go for victory. O is a novel for anyone who wants to understand what our leaders are really thinking. It proves in dramatic terms that, sometimes only fiction can reveal the truth."--Inside cover.