HaBO: Wee! Woo! Bonkers Book Alert!

This HaBO comes from longtime reader, Hanne:

So, the book is quite old – I remember finding it in my parents’ bookshelf, probably during the mid-to-late-nineties, and it may be from around then or even earlier. My parents’ hardcover was in black, white, and red, I believe – but I may misremember. It was in one of the hard-to-reach shelves, which of course meant that it was one of the more interesting shelves to early teenage me.

I don’t remember a lot about the plot, but it was a quite outlandish spy/suspense kind of thing, with the first lady of the US as the protagonist, and KGB spies in the other corner. I’m very sure that it is Very Old School and should come with a boatload of trigger warnings. The first lady was abducted and replaced with a dopplegänger, and the dopplegänger was supposed to extract secrets from the big man himself. As I remember it, a big part of the plot was the KGB guys worrying that they didn’t know how the prez liked his bedroom activities. Their grand solution was to seduce the abducted first lady in order to find out how she liked it, and give the intel to the dopplegänger, as they were sure that pillow talk would extract the maximum amount of national secrets. Somehow, the first lady deduced the reason for the seduction, and acted quite “wild and wanton” (…) instead of her usually sedate and vanilla self, which translated to her trying to give the KGB Don Juan a very practiced blow job. And somehow, the KGB Don Juan deduced that she was bluffing, and told the dopplegänger to act vanilla. What I don’t remember, is how the actual suspense plot ended, and it bugs me!

That’s all I remember – hope someone else has read it!

This sure is something.