The Double Man By William S. Cohen and Gary Hart. New York: William Morrow, 1985. 348 pages. Out of print.-- Republican William Cohen (of secretary of defense fame) and Democrat Gary Hart (of Monkey Business infamy) collaborated across the aisle on this novel of political intrigue, but set a poor precedent for artistic bipartisanship. The novel's moderate New England senator is a sympathetic but unfathomably dull hero -- the real fun lies in guessing who wrote what. Cohen, author of two uncelebrated volumes of poetry, was surely the creative force behind the "neuron exchanger" -- a secret weapon designed "to alter the brain patterns of [our] enemies so as to make them totally benign and nonthreatening." And it's almost too easy to attribute the following to poor Hart: "Her lips parted as they sought his.... At that moment, if the flames had leaped out to consume them, they might not have noticed. Or cared." Mother Jones.com review