Presidents Son has it all power, sex, leading characters and a real story-line to pull everything together. I read this novel directly after finishing Bardo I ran down to the local "large-metro-corporate-book chain" and ordered the only other book I could find by my new favorite author. Three weeks later in the mail comes my book, how surprised and appalled was I a sixteen year old newly outed gay boy in rural Canada to be walking around my hometown carrying a book that looked like a mix between an erotic pocketbook and a steamy gay romance novel, neither of which describe this novel to any truth. What I found shocked, thrilled and even changed my life in ways i am still grasping to understand; A serious story of the means to which power can push even the best of us to do the unthinkable. We all have tiny secret we keep from those we love but in this novel (Kraus' first) we are pulled into the powerful lives and seedy underground of the re-election of the President of the United States. Kraus spent a number of years as a secret consultant to the white house and knows alot more than he lets on. The story revolves around the upcoming re-election of President of the United States Donald Marshall, we quickly discover that D.J (Don Jr.) the Presidents Son, and Male Hollywood actor, is gay and in scenes spanning from Washington D.C to Lyon France and back to Fire Island we track the lengths people will go to gain or retain power.
I read this novel in a week and a half, finished it half way to Edmonton AB on a plane and couldn't wait to pass it on. Defiantly one of my all time Gay Faves, and worth a read should the desire to carry a 320 page gay harlequin romance looking novel around strike you. (I got this one back) :)
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