He regards his high libido as physiologically normal; if he goes without a woman for three days, he suffers headaches. The subject of this novel is a habitual womaniser. And this particular philanderer must choose his partners with care and employ painstaking calculation in their seduction. He embarks on affairs with Hollywood starlets, with mob molls and numerous female employees, despite debilitating ailments and a persistent fear of losing his beloved wife and children. He is the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He must go to extraordinary lengths to conceal his affairs from his political rivals - and with good reason. 2010