The Perfect Candidate: Spy, Interrupted

A fast-paced novel full of political intrigue, espionage, and romance, The Perfect Candidate spans multiple genres and continents, taking the reader inside the world of state secrets and intercultural relationships in a thrilling tale of power and ambition.

Former spy and New England aristocrat Stephen Edward James and his wife Nina Sharma are about to enter the race for a US Senate seat in Stephen’s native Massachusetts. With his high-profile philanthropic endeavors, interracial marriage, and uncommonly principled stance, Stephen makes a compelling Republican candidate in the traditionally Democratic stronghold—despite his shadowy past.

Stephen’s opponent—former congresswoman and popular professor Katherine Collins—hires a tracker, Dave Tyler, to dig into Stephen's past. As his tabloid curiosity turns into a personal dislike for the privileged candidate, Tyler is determined to go to any lengths necessary to discredit Stephen. His efforts rock the campaign, jeopardizing Stephen’s marriage as well as pushing one of his young, closeted staffers to the breaking point.

But Stephen is not one to back down from a fight. He has powerful friends in his corner—setting off an ominous chain of events.

T. Dasu is a published author of both nonfiction and fiction, including Spy, Interrupted: The Waiting Wife, which came out in November 2014 and is the first in the Spy, Interrupted trilogy.

She enjoys classic stories of love and longing, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, and is hooked on literary espionage, exemplified by Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana.

By day, Dasu is a research scientist working on problems in statistics, stream mining, and machine learning, which allow her to put her PhD in mathematical statistics to good use.