Run Robbie Run

Jon Pepper's political farce Run Robbie Run is a razor-sharp satire of an American political party at war with itself-and it's wickedly funny.

Set during an election year nomination process, the novel follows two spectacularly unfit candidates: Dewey Fenwick, an 87-year-old former president who can barely stay conscious, and his successor Robbie Crowe, a lazy, self-absorbed billionaire who stumbles into the nomination without earning a single vote.

The opening scene, in which campaign aides f...