Joel Slosar

The Candid Candidate Joel Slosar

'Don't you realize what we'relooking at here?¿ An all time first inthe history of the human race. An honest politician.'Fastpaced, tightly plotted, and irreverently amusing, The Candid Candidate is filled with surprises and unexpected twistsand turns. JackWood has a compulsion for telling the truth.¿He can't really tell a lie. Andthat's only the first of his problems. Asthe press secretary to his uncle, the mayor of Palmer City, Jack learns that honesty is anything but avirtue.¿ The town has long since beendominated by his uncle's corrupt political machine and with nothing left tolose, Jack challenges him in the upcoming election.¿ Along with the idealistic Melinda Wheeler,and ineptly aided by a pair of elderly party workers, Jack embarks on aquixotic venture promising the voters he will tell them nothing but the truth. Yetthe campaign trail is strewn with booby traps.¿The mayor's aide is Jack's romantic rival for the lovely Melinda.¿ His once benevolent uncle now hates him.¿ And as his improbable campaign picks upsteam, there's the biggest problem of all about Jack's truth telling honesty. Whatif he's lying?