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The Days to Come

A Novel

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

A masterful political thriller thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreign espionage, and a risky, classified plan to save the world from environmental disaster.


Billionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for fixing a broken government in his first term as president of the United States. In the months before his inauguration, he's developed daring and, in some cases, secret strategies to solve the climate crisis, force Congress to work again, and rebuild America's economy—and that's just the beginning. Everyone in the capital is scrambling to adapt to the new disruptor in chief's bold agenda, though many, both at home and abroad, also want to see Traynor and his steely vice president, Wendy Upton, fail. Unsure of whom he can trust, Traynor intends to turn to an unusual group of people to advise him, including the savvy and sometimes ruthless DC fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks.

Though he is at the height of his career, Rena finds his world in chaos. His personal life is a mess; he wonders if his work—saving powerful people from their mistakes—has become too cynical. When malicious, untraceable cyberattacks related to his past start seeping from the dark corners of the internet, Rena's doubts overwhelm him. Then an unpredictable tragedy throws the country into crisis, and he must come out of his stupor.

If Rena wants to help the new president salvage American politics, he will first have to reckon with his own demons and come to grips with a world far different from the one he once believed in. With the government and the country polarized and on the cusp of enormous change, Tom Rosenstiel's The Days to Come is a clever, gripping thriller and a cogent meditation on how to heal a divided country.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 13, 2021
      In Rosenstiel’s solid fourth novel starring political fixer Peter Rena (after 2019’s Oppo), Rena and partner Randi Brooks swing into action when President David Traynor, previously a high-tech investor who favored disruptive technology, unexpectedly dies three months into his term. Vice President Wendy Upton, unsure of Traynor’s daring set of initiatives, keys in on his energy strategy, which involves a constitutionally questionable plan to fund four start-ups, all focusing on battery storage technology. Despite Rena’s personal troubles—his longtime girlfriend has dumped him and he’s being stalked online—he heads to the West Coast at Upton’s direction. His mission: determine whether the four small companies, in line to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, have become espionage targets for the Chinese and Russians in the race for superior climate technology. This entry suffers from a slow start and too much navel-gazing and pouty behavior by Rena, but quickly picks up speed in the second half as it builds to a satisfying ending. Political thriller buffs will appreciate the beltway dealmaking, while spycraft lovers will enjoy the detailed look at the many ways that technology secrets get stolen. Agent: David Black, Black Agency.

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