The Days to Come : A Novel

A masterful political thriller from the author of Shining City thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreign espionage, and a risky, classified plan to save the world from environmental disaster

Billionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for fixing a broken government in his first term as president of the United States. In the months before his inauguration, hes developed daring and, in some cases, secret strategies to solve the climate crisis, force Congress to work again, and rebuild Americas economyand thats just the beginning. Everyone in the capital is scrambling to adapt to the new disruptor in chiefs bold agenda, though many, both at home and abroad, also want to see Traynor and his steely vice president, Wendy Upton, fail. Unsure of whom he can trust, Traynor intends to turn to an unusual group of people to advise him, including the savvy and sometimes ruthless DC fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks.

Though he is at the height of his career, Rena finds his world in chaos. His personal life is a mess; he wonders if his worksaving powerful people from their mistakeshas become too cynical. When malicious, untraceable cyberattacks related to his past start seeping from the dark corners of the internet, Renas doubts overwhelm him. Then an unpredictable tragedy throws the country into crisis, and he must come out of his stupor.

If Rena wants to help the new president salvage American politics, he will first have to reckon with his own demons and come to grips with a world far different from the one he once believed in. With the government and the country polarized and on the cusp of enormous change, Tom RosenstielsThe Days to Comeis a clever, gripping thriller and a cogent meditation on how to heal a divided country.