When I first wrote Shall We Tell the
President? I set the story six or seven years in the future. Now that that
future date lies in the past, some of the story’s credibility becomes impaired.
Since that time too I have written The
Prodigal Daughter in which the chief character, Florentyna
Kane, becomes the first woman President of the United States. It therefore seems
logical to me, in recasting Shall We Tell the President?, to introduce
my fictional president rather than keep the real-life name of Edward M. Kennedy
who was the focus of the original novel. This gives it a natural link to The
Prodigal Daughter and also to Kane and Abel.
I have not altered the essential story of Shall
We Tell the President? but a number of significant changes, as well as
minor ones, have been made in this revised, re-set edition.
