Three weeks before election day a presidential candidate dies...in a hastilly called party conclave. Eddie Quinn is names to take his place. Eddie Who? An obscure highway official from New Jersey, whose chief pleasures are cars, bowling and women....
“What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, “A little too plausible for comfort.”...