Steve Berry says Body Man is “crisply plotted, thought-provoking and troubling in its take on our new reality.”

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A “Thought-Provoking” Story from a Former White House Press Corps Member

In this incredibly timely new political thriller, former White House and Pentagon press corps member and multi-award-winning author Al Pessin takes readers inside the corridors of power, on deployment with a Marine Corps unit, and into the secret world of militias willing to commit violence to “defend America.”

Jon Land calls Body Man “a taut, terrifying, terrific political thriller that cuts to the bone . . . an all-too-credible cautionary tale ripped from tomorrow’s headlines.”

Body Man reads like the true story it could easily be, told by its two main characters. Spencer is the Body Man, close personal aide to a liberal senator who catapults to the presidency. Carl is a body man of a different sort, a Marine Corps sniper with a bad conduct discharge who gets drawn into the Alt-Right movement and recruited to assassinate the new president.

As America’s real-life tensions explode, there are mass shootings, riots in the streets, and mutinies in the military―all things that could actually happen if we let them. And two young men have more power to determine the course of American history than they should ever have.

Body Man is a “chilling cautionary tale,” says NY Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. “Al Pessin has done it again. Don’t miss this one from a terrific writer.”

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About Al Pessin

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Al Pessin is a former member of the White House and Pentagon press corps, a 15-year foreign correspondent, and a multi-award-winning author and playwright. His writing has won a Florida Book Award and six Royal Palm Literary Awards, as well as other recognition.

All of Al’s novels build on his decades of experience covering the highest echelons of Washington, as well as some of the world’s most desperate conflicts and most hopeful and inspiring moments. As a correspondent for Voice of America, Al was on the scene in Afghanistan and Iraq, at Southeast Asian refugee camps, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the rally where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and along Israeli streets devastated by terrorist bombs. He also reported to the world about pro-democracy uprisings in Beijing, Kyiv, Cairo, and Manila, as well as hope-filled elections in Egypt, Gaza, and Libya, among other places, indeed including the United States. Al was expelled from China in 1989 for his coverage of the Tiananmen Massacre, accused of “illegal news gathering” and “fomenting counterrevolutionary rebellion.” Among other honors, he was named Communicator of the Year for that coverage.

Al also wrote the two-act farce Murder at the Butcher’s which won Play of the Year at the Royal Palm Literary Awards and had four sold-out performances in its premiere run in 2019.

Al has led writing seminars for Writers Digest, BookFest, Broward County Libraries, Florida WritersCon, and at many other online and in-person venues. In 2023, he was the keynote speaker at the Book Expo of Central Florida. Al also taught graduate-level journalism as an adjunct at Northwestern University, his alma mater. And he has published commentaries in several outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Politico, and DefenseOne. Al blogged on writing for the Florida Writers Association, and his work has appeared in Writers Digest, Mystery Scene and other publications.

Significantly for Body Man, Al grew up in Michigan. During his journalism career, in addition to Washington he lived in Hong Kong, Islamabad, Beijing, Jerusalem, and London.