Ever since Jeffrey Lewis’s novel The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks against the United States came out last summer, people have been recommending it to me.

At last I’ve had a chance to read it, and now I’m recommending it to you.

On Twitter I posted a four-word review: Frightening, excellent, and necessary reading. I’ll add just a bit more here.

Jeffrey Lewis is an academic and the founding publisher of the blog Arms Control Wonk. The 2020 Commission Report is a “speculative novel” written in the form of an official report issued by a commission established to ascertain the historical facts that led to a devastating nuclear attack by North Korea in March of 2020 — just eleven months away in a postulated future.

An official report may sound like dry reading, but it’s riveting. The scenario Lewis develops feels all too realistic, and the characters are the actual people — mostly incompetents — who have somehow, absurdly, been placed in positions of power within the United States.

Here’s hoping we survive until the next election. May we gain enough wisdom as a country to elect competent people into the executive office next time.

Find it at Amazon.

Go here for links to other vendors.