{"product_id":"the-sun-king-9780812992434","title":"The Sun King","description":"Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is one of the most highly regarded writers in the capital, an influential journalist and acclaimed novelist with a keen eye for the subtleties of power and politics. In \u003cb\u003eThe Sun King\u003c\/b\u003e, Ignatius has written a love story for our time, a spellbinding portrait of the collision of ambition and sexual desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sandy Galvin is a billionaire with a rare talent for taking risks and making people happy. Galvin arrives in a Washington suffering under a cloud of righteous misery and proceeds to turn the place upside down. He buys the city's most powerful newspaper, The Washington Sun and Tribune, and wields it like a sword, but in his path stands his old Harvard flame, Candace Ridgway, a beautiful and icy journalist known to her colleagues as the Mistress of Fact. Their fateful encounter, tangled in the mysteries of their past, is narrated by David Cantor, an acid-tongued reporter and Jerry Springer devotee who is drawn inexorably into the Sun King's orbit and is transformed by this unpredictable man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this wise and poignant novel, love is the final frontier for a generation of baby boomers at midlife--still young enough to reach for their dreams but old enough to glimpse the prospect of loss. The Sun King can light up a room, but can he melt the worldly bonds that constrain the Mistress of Fact? In \u003cb\u003eThe Sun King\u003c\/b\u003e, David Ignatius proves with perceptive wit and haunting power that the phrase \"Washington love story\" isn't an oxymoron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ignatius\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four acclaimed novels, the most recent of which is \u003ci\u003eA Firing Offense\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently an op-ed columnist at The Washington Post, he has also been a reporter and war correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journa\u003c\/i\u003el. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Cambridge University and lives in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492133572882,"sku":"9780812992434","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a65decf-d646-4eb5-a0b3-f7cb83c35ae9.jpg?v=1730572424","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sun-king-9780812992434","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}