Thriller crashes onto shelves

Wellington author New York-based John Wareham’s latest book The President’s Therapist and the Secret Intervention to Treat the Alcoholism of George Bush hits US stores on January 20, Inauguration Day. The  President’s Therapist is a serious psychological analysis of President George W. Bush uniquely packaged as a political thriller. New York professor of literature Charles Defanti has compared the New York-based Wareham’s “hyper-realism” to Tolstoy and Zola. “I found it just about impossible to believe I was reading fiction,” he said in a televised interview. “I’m still wondering where John Wareham managed to pick up so much inside information.” In a review for The Washington Watch psychologist Dr Jess Maghan, former director of training for the New York Police Department, noted, “Even those Bushwhacked among us will find this book offering an antidote to the nightmare of the Bush years.” Wareham, 69, is author of several bestsellers, including Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter, How to Break Out of Prison and the 2003 novel, Chancey on Top. His firm, Wareham Associates, specialises in corporate leadership selection and development. He is founder and chief executive of The Eagles Foundation of America, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation of prison inmates.