Novels inspired by real - lightly camouflaged - politicians seem to attract readers. France is one of summer's best seller about the maktfullkomlige political leader "Rocky," the Guardian newspaper. The novel "Le Monarque, son fils, son fief" ("The monarch, his son, his kingdom") is a controversial satire set in Nicolas Sarkozy's circles, and there is no sympathetic picture given by the ex-president. In one scene he demands sex from one of the mayor, in exchange for funding Sarkozy, a new museum in the city.
Behind the book says Marie-Celie Guillaume, former chief of staff for one of Sarkozy's ministers, who have managed to annoy both the French right as Sarkozy's son.
Here in Sweden this fall journalist Chris Forsnes political thriller "Our man in the world", a leading politician who cares more about oil money than about Sweden. The similarities with Carl Bildt is no coincidence. Although Norwegian Erlend Loe has been inspired by a politician in his new novel, namely, Jens Stoltenberg.
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