Conservatives are not only poised to capture the talk radio and cable news networks, but also the bestseller lists. There’s a new non-fiction bestseller every other week from a conservative personality and conservatives like Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy are still recreating genres and selling truckloads of novels.

Who will write the next great read for liberty lovers? We’re not sure, but there’s one first-novel we’ve been eagerly anticipating: The Unholy Grail by Kira Peikoff

Kira is Leonard Peikoff’s daughter. For those who aren’t Objectivists, you might note that Mr. Peikoff may well be one of the preeminent capitalist thinkers alive today. He has managed to bring clarity and care to Ayn Rand’s intellectual legacy and is really without equal when it comes to his mastery of Rand’s universe. We’re not Objectivists, but we’ve enjoyed Leonard Peikoff’s lectures on grammar, logic, and writing for years… and we think Kira may have benefited from her intellectual pedigree.

Why are we so impressed with Kira? We read an excerpt from The Holy Grail at KiraPeikoff.com and thoroughly enjoyed it. The novel is about a medical doctor’s struggle to save her own life from a debilitating disease… and government interference. The subject matter should earn her a bow on conservative talk shows and cable television as the “health care reform” fight in Congress heats up during the weeks to come. More importantly,
her prose and style remind us a bit of Ayn Rand, but the excerpt does not include the surest signs of Rand fan-fiction: long-winded philosophical or political speeches or characters who seem to be created as shallow representations of some idealogical dogma. On the contrary, Kira’s excerpt is vivid, sharp, and disciplined beyond her years.

If I were her publisher, I’d be eager to get The Unholy Grail on bookshelves immediately in order to bank on the recent upsurge in Ayn Rand’s popularity and the intense focus on this front in the health care wars, but we also understand the importance of ironing-out the wrinkles.

To read the excerpt and learn more about Kira and her unpublished novel, please feel free to click here:

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