Ecochondriacs: The No Quarter November Novel

It's election season, America's most lucrative sport, and there are no rules. Climate scientist Dr. Helen Gardner didn't expect her day to go sideways when she accidentally opened an email from the International Task Force on Climate Change. What she found inside was worse than she could have imagined: proof that global warming is an elaborate and very profitable scam. Shocked and horrified, Helen tries to process what she's read. She doesn't get long. By the next morning, her boss, the head of the Task Force, has sent someone to kill her. Helen disappears into hiding with an unlikely pair of allies: Cody, a "fundy" Bible college professor who happens to be her neighbor, and a lumberjack-writer who makes a living opposing the environmental movement. Meanwhile, the rest of the political class is having its own bad week. The Democrat presidential candidate receives career-altering news. His running mate hits bottom after years of infidelity. The Republican VP's carefully buried past is working its way back to the surface. And Cody is about to dig up something nobody wanted found. Douglas Wilson's satirical novel is darkly funny, sharply observed, and bracingly cynical about the institutions most people still pretend to trust.