And Lead Us Not

A comic novel about Wally Zeringue, a high school drop-out who becomes President of the United States.From the author of the very popular Bayou da Vinci, the gripping story of a serial killing teacher living a double life.Wally has enemies -- among them, Dan Bitterman, a former classmate who is now a reporter for the President’s hometown weekly newspaper. Two other bitter enemies of Wally Zeringue become secret informants for the reporter. They are Wally’s sixth-grade teacher and his own brother.As Bitterman uncovers more and more dirt on the new President, the nation’s intelligentsia joins in for the kill. But Zeringue somehow connects with the American public and thwarts the media assault. In doing so, he implements radical changes in the way the country conducts its business. This is a book that will have the reader laughing and then thinking, laughing and then thinkingAnd Lead Us Not is a novel I would have written if I were still alive. --Mark Twain