Anonymous ID: 26ba4b Jan. 25, 2018, 1:01 p.m. No.160540   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0577 >>0580 >>0591 >>0599 >>0644

“Q” Clearance A NOVEL

Peter Benchley

1986 Random House

 

“On your knees, America!”

Not the way you expect a novel that is billed as a comic masterpiece of modern misunderstanding to start out.

 

Benchley (author of Jaws and The Deep and former speech writer for Lyndon Johnson) writes what could have been a story from his own life. Tim Burnham is one of the President’s writers who receives his Q clearance (along with a GS step 9 raise to $59,800) while living in a rented house with an ungrateful family. His thrust into the inner circle of the President leads to his future entanglement as a leaker of information through a relationship with the daughter of a Russian spy. Lots of quaint 80’s references ($5 cab rides, paper shredders, re-used cassette tapes) and was a good read for anyone who wants a new perspective.

 

The underlying theme of the novel is that Tim becomes the trusted voice and ally of the President and a conduit for getting the truth to the American people. Sound familiar to anyone here?

 

I would suggest that POTUS or others on Team Q have at least read the book at sometime in their lives and maybe used it as a motivation for their current operation.

 

Promised a book review when I posted the cover picture. Be happy to answer any questions people have about it.

Anonymous ID: 26ba4b Jan. 25, 2018, 1:50 p.m. No.161010   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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He runs off with his girl Eva after successfully extricating himself from a sticky situation.

 

Given an anonymous presidential award.

 

Some ambiguity as to whether he was being “used” to identify leaks. The information he was leaking was fake.