The Whole Truth

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John Ehrlichman’s new novel is even more timely, revealing and important than <i>The Company. </i> In <i> The Whole Truth</i> 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…