Finally got around to reading Thomas Mallon’s 2012 novel Watergate, an example of “historical fiction” that manages to pull together most of the details of the complicated and fascinating political scandal that cut short Richard Nixon’s second term as president. Mallon adds certain invented details as well, including significantly fleshing out a few characters and their back stories and introducing a couple of new figures (both love interests) not actually part of the real-life saga.
The book is engaging and aside from its literary merits actually could work as a decent introduction to the story of Watergate for those unfamiliar with it.