Executive director of the American Press Institute and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Rosenstiel has put his day-job experience to stunning literary use in his acclaimed Peter Rena series. Following Shining City and The Good Lie, his third political thriller is set during a particularly fraught presidential primary season. After a respected centrist senator, Wendy Upton, is offered the vice presidential slot by both major parties, she receives death threats and hires Rena, Washington’s premier fixer, to find the culprits. As they investigate, Rena and his partner, Randi Brooks, find themselves tangled in a volatile web of conflicting ideologies and political secrets where things could blow at any time. Rosenstiel will be in conversation with Karen Tumulty, political columnist at The Washington Post.