THE FURY: POTOMAC (Part 1)

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By Samantha Borcy

Creator Jimmie does not ease you into anything. THE FURY franchise announces itself with the kind of audacity that either grabs you in the first paragraph or loses you entirely, and POTOMAC makes absolutely no apologies for which camp it expects you to fall into. A French author writing a distinctly American political fever dream, set in Washington D.C., featuring a white giant billionaire named Warshade who decides he wants to buy the United States of America. If that sentence made you lean forward, this book was written for you.

Warshade is the kind of character who could only exist in fiction that has fully committed to its own logic. He walks the streets of the capital listening to ordinary Americans crushed under the weight of corrupt politicians, and he does not process that suffering quietly. He processes it the way a force of nature processes an obstacle: loudly, physically, and with the specific kind of righteous fury that makes bystanders wonder whether he is saving them or simply consuming everything in his path. The tension between those two possibilities is where the book lives, and Creator Jimmie keeps you in that tension with considerable skill.

What makes the franchise genuinely unusual is the writing style itself. Centered text, cinematic rhythm, dialogue that lands like punches rather than conversations. This is not conventional novel prose. It is something closer to a screenplay that decided it did not need the screen, and the effect is disorienting in exactly the way that seems intentional. Creator Jimmie's background as an actor shapes every exchange. The dialogue is sharp, sometimes darkly funny, always alive in the way that printed words rarely manage to feel.

POTOMAC takes the franchise deeper into its political imagination, building out an America of real places and invented brands, of suffering working people and Warshade's thundering response to their pain. Whether you read it as satire, as action spectacle, or as something in between, it delivers what it promises: writing of extreme intensity, not a single dull moment, and an experience you genuinely have not had before.