Preserve and Protect

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Preserve and Protect is a political novel written by Allen Drury, published in 1968. It is the third sequel to Drury's novel, Advise and Consent.

The novel takes place in the same fictional universe as Advise and Consent. After winning his party's nomination in Capable of Honor, President Harley Hudson dies in a suspicious plane crash. The Majority Party (seemingly a stand in for the Democratic Party) immediately convenes its National Committee, torn between the supporters of California Governor Ted Jason and Illinois Senator Orrin Knox.

Eventually Knox defeats Jason, but names Jason as his vice presidential nominee. At the conclusion of the novel, a gunman appears and opens fire on the two candidates, allowing Drury to offer two concurrent and conflicting sequels to Preserve and Protect: one in which Knox dies and Gov. Jason goes on to become president (1973's Come Nineveh, Come Tyre) and another with the opposite results following the assassination (1975's A Promise of Joy).

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