Brendan Mallory

The President's Head Is Missing! Brendan Mallory

The President of the United States is dead. But that's okay, because no one really liked him anyway. Frank Donaldson was quite possibly the worst President in American history, demonstrating himself to be openly corrupt, blatantly incompetent, and vehemently antagonistic towards everyone he met. By most accounts, his death is a blessing in disguise for the country. There's just one problem: Vice President Patrick Muntz is somehow even worse, not just a bad politician but a violent psychopath who delights in causing others pain and misery. So when a small group of White House staff discovers President Donaldson's body lying dead in the Oval Office, they determine it's in the country's best interests to do everything in their power to prevent Muntz from ascending to the highest office in the land. And he can't take over for the President if no one ever finds out the President is dead... Now it's up to Secretary of State Jeff Albertson, White House Intern Cassondra Warren, First Daughter Luna Donaldson, and Luna's debatably-useful husband Jacob Kirkman to pull off one of the biggest and most bizarre cover-ups in American history by convincing the country and the world that President Donaldson's fetid, rotting corpse is not only alive and well, but still fit for command."The President's Head Is Missing!" is the debut novel of L. A.-based writer and cartoonist Brendan Mallory ("I Think I'm a Penguin" on Webtoons), smashing together the irreverent sci-fi farce of Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, the high-octane political thrills of literally any Tom Clancy novel, and the transgressive, pitch-black humor of Garth Ennis's "Preacher" together into a razor-sharp satire of the terrifying mess our world has become. May we all live in interesting times.