The Faithful: A Novel of the Obama Campaign

The Faithful, a sexy behind-the-scenes novel about the Barack Obama Democratic nomination campaign, is now available in print on Amazon.com. It was originally serialized on the E-Reads website.

The "Faithful" of Carla Dickens's novel are a vibrant cadre of volunteers devoted to the most charismatic presidential candidate in fifty years. Drawn from today's newspaper headlines and political blogs, The Faithful follows a cast of young, smart, beautiful and driven men and women shepherding their candidate through the turbulent waters of the Democratic presidential campaign of 2008.

RC

The Faithful - Chapter Ten ("White People")

Pennsylvania is a bad news state for everyone on the campaign, from Barack Obama down to Reggie, Caroline, Chloe, and Kanesha. While the professional pols are desperate to spin Reverand Wright and Barack's "Bitter" gaffe, and Hillary relentlessly plays the White Worker card, our cast is desperately seeking to uncover the spy in their midst, the one they've been calling "X". Now that they know who it is, they discover there may also be a "Y"!

It's not all bad. Kanesha enjoys an hour of majorly rough sex before dismissing her lover from her life. And Thomas, our gay narrator, is on the trail of a hot new attraction.

Despite a loss in Pennsylvania, Barack is moving inexorably to victory and The Faithful to its climax.

Check out Chapter Ten of The Faithful.

The Faithful - Chapter Nine ("A Crisis of Faith")

While Barack Obama is winning handily in Wyoming and Mississippi, there's another war between the sexes taking place behind the scenes. Thomas discovers two of his companions in flagrante delictu and is swept by nearly uncontrollable envy and lust, not for the female partner but for the male. And it looks like the identity of Spy X is about to be revealed by none other than Kanesha's mother!

Now available, Chapter Nine...

The Faithful - Chapter Eight ("The Empire Fights Back")

What's assault to the the goose is consensual sex to the gander. Those bruises? Spanking, and she asked for it.

The trail of the double crosser, Spy X, in the Obama campaign becomes red-hot with the discovery of a photo of one of our Obama stalwarts posed with - Hillary! Someone has some very tall explaining to do. Scandal couldn't come at a worse time, with the tide turning in Hillary's direction. She wins Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island.

Read more in this week's installment of The Faithful.

The Faithful - Chapter Seven (The Inevitable Candidate)

In Chapter 7 of The Faithful, the Obama campaign team speculates that the spy in their midst was planted by the Clinton camp. "Suddenly," says our narrator, "I realized just how dangerous a Clinton camp spy in our midst could be. These people are ruthless. Winning, winning, winning - winning is everything. They have no soul. Hillary didn’t care if her dirty politics hurt the Democratic Party and the nation. Wouldn’t some of the people who worked for her stop at nothing to help her?"

They become desperate to find X, who's been reporting their steamy sexual liaisons to a snoopy New York Times reporter. But any one of them could be the traitor.

The Faithful - Chapter Six (Obamentum)

In Chapter 6 (Obamentum) of The Faithful, New York Times reporter Jilly Norton is hot on the trail of sex scandals in the campaign workers, and now a spy in the Obama organization has confirmed every sordid detail. He -- or is it she? - is referred to only as X. But Thomas has a wicked ploy up his sleeve to thwart the dogged journalist's expose.

The Faithful - Chapter Five (Obamania)

In Chapter Five of The Faithful (Obamania), the game of musical sex partners comes to an abrupt halt after a stunning public announcement, and Chloe is left standing alone. And there's major trouble on the horizon: a New York Times journalist has gotten wind of the behind-the-campaign high jinks, and if she actually has the real goods it could blow "Obamentum" sky-high.

The Faithful - Chapter Four (Star Power)

In this week's installment, Chapter Four (Star Power) of The Faitfhful, an Obama campaigner reveals a passion for rough sex and the bruises to prove it.

The Faithful - Chapter Three ("Yes, We Can!")

In this week's installment, Chapter Three ("Yes, We Can!"), of The Faitfhful, a glamorous friend of Oprah solves the mystery of the missing engagement ring. And Kanesha turns up ravaged - was she attacked, or was it consensual?

The Faithful - Chapter Two

In Chapter Two of The Faithful, Caroline and Reggie go at at it hot and heavy. Everyone knows about the affair except her fiance Evan. How will they ever keep it from him?