I have just finished “Unpresidented” which has taken over my life for the last week or so. What a rollercoaster of a read. it provides a forensic close up view of the US election written by the BBC's eminent Washington correspondent who is always close to the action - sometimes a bit too close at times given the COVID scares. If it was fiction it would be laughed out of court given how totally incredible what has transpired over the past few months. You really could not make much of this up.

This is the third of a trilogy of books by Jon Sopel and it completes a truly important body of work. it is extremely prescient in how it predicts that Trump will respond in the face of defeat and I just hope and pray there isn’t a final chapter still to be written given last week's storming of the Capital.

"UnPresidented" is basically Jon Sopel's diary of the 2020 US election race, the election, and a few days after. Sounds dull? It's anything but. Jon Sopel handles the events (public and personal) with a great deal of humanity that makes this book impossible to dislike in any way. I'd been following the election quite closely, but even so, there were things I'd missed hearing about. Vital reading for enthusiasts of politics, the USA, or humankind in general.

My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley. This review was written voluntarily and is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.