The Whole Truth

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John Ehrlichman’s new novel is even more timely, revealing and important than The Company. In The Whole Truth he brilliantly explores the moral question that goes to the very heart of our political system: Can a President and his aides ever justify telling the people less than the whole truth? At the center of this explosive novel is a series of very recognizable situations: a coup in a South American country, engineered at the request of a big American corporation that has made a generous cash contribution to the President; a meeting on the White House yacht, during which the President and the Attorney General casually order the CIA into a deadly foreign operation; a scandal that erodes the President’s credibility and leads to a sensational investigation which destroys the career of the President’s closest advisor and almost leads to a constitutional crisis…