The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust would be my suggestion . The stories follow an assassin and his snarky familiar into adventures that have both magical and political intricacies in them . The humor is pretty neat and the overarching myth connecting the books will keep you eager for more . <| sep |> That ' s what pretty much all candidates ' plans are . They have to placate the factory workers because they depend on those votes from the middle of the country . I think we need to start accepting that those jobs aren ' t coming back , and yeah , it sucks , but no politician wants to break it to them that they are in a dying industry and either need to retire or move forward . It ' s a shitty thing to hear as a 3040 year old that you might need to go back to school and start a new profession , but sometimes that ' s the nature of the economy . Personally , I wouldn ' t mind paying more taxes to support early retirements and pensions for them , so long as it meant that politicians didn ' t need to cater to them anymore .