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The Seersucker Whipsaw by Ross Thomas is a novel that delves into the world of political campaigns in a fictionalized country. The book follows a storyline where white individuals from the West aim to impart their wisdom on the Africans of the soon-to-be-independent colony of Albertia, focusing on running political campaigns. The novel is praised for its quirky and interesting characters, its canny plotting, and its clever writing style. However, some readers found the ending to be unexpected and slightly jarring, with a twist that seemed aimed at a potential movie adaptation.
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For one thing, he's American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For another, Shartelle is Southern and fiercely proud of it, and his ideas about racial politics veer unpredictably from progressive to rigidly old-fashioned. Rich natural resources make Albertia attractive to businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, opening it up to political corruption. For his part, Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist's favored candidate wins the presidency. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool.
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