The Age of Anarchy now available on Amazon
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thriller, The Age of Anarchy, now available at amazon.com as a kindle ebook for $.99.
The Age of Anarchy Plot:
Max Eastern is a young filmmaker, the son of an old Hollywood star. He’s overjoyed with himself because he’s just finished his first movie, a flattering biopic of world-renowned revolutionary Oscar “el Puño” Ramírez, now president-for-life of the Caribbean nation of St. Elizabeth. Eastern has flown down to the island for the film premiere, but even before his plane’s touched the ground, the movie’s already causing a stink.
Eastern might revere el Puño, but that doesn’t mean the president’s own people do. Out of touch with what’s happening in the country, Eastern expects to be greeted in St. Elizabeth with adulation and applause. But he’s barely out of the airport on the way to a party in his honor, when, instead of throwing him flowers, somebody in a motorcycle tosses a Molotov cocktail at his car. Eastern can’t believe it. Who would want to kill him? It couldn’t be his film that’s pushing them over the edge. Ramírez dismisses the assassination attempt as a ploy by one of his own political enemies to embarrass the regime, but something doesn’t add up. For one thing, this political enemy, a man named Betancourt, shows up at the party drunk and he’s never heard of Max Eastern or his film. When, the following morning, a second film surfaces, also a Ramírez biopic but an unflattering portrait that contradicts everything in Eastern’s film, Max Eastern looks like a fake, a liar, and a fool.
Determined to reclaim his reputation before it’s too late, he seeks to discover where this film came from, who made it, and why. As he pursues this mystery, he sets off violent forces suppressed for decades that now threaten to engulf the entire society, and Eastern’s kidding himself if he thinks hiding out in an island mansion off the coast will protect him for long.
Eastern might revere el Puño, but that doesn’t mean the president’s own people do. Out of touch with what’s happening in the country, Eastern expects to be greeted in St. Elizabeth with adulation and applause. But he’s barely out of the airport on the way to a party in his honor, when, instead of throwing him flowers, somebody in a motorcycle tosses a Molotov cocktail at his car. Eastern can’t believe it. Who would want to kill him? It couldn’t be his film that’s pushing them over the edge. Ramírez dismisses the assassination attempt as a ploy by one of his own political enemies to embarrass the regime, but something doesn’t add up. For one thing, this political enemy, a man named Betancourt, shows up at the party drunk and he’s never heard of Max Eastern or his film. When, the following morning, a second film surfaces, also a Ramírez biopic but an unflattering portrait that contradicts everything in Eastern’s film, Max Eastern looks like a fake, a liar, and a fool.
Determined to reclaim his reputation before it’s too late, he seeks to discover where this film came from, who made it, and why. As he pursues this mystery, he sets off violent forces suppressed for decades that now threaten to engulf the entire society, and Eastern’s kidding himself if he thinks hiding out in an island mansion off the coast will protect him for long.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Teddy Roosevelt disses the OWS movement
Did Teddy Roosevelt have something to say about the OWS movement over a hundred years before the first disgruntled professional activist set foot in Zuccotti Park?
Okay, not really.
He was talking about the supporters of the Democratic nominee for President in the election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan, as quoted in Richard Zacks book Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York:
Okay, not really.
He was talking about the supporters of the Democratic nominee for President in the election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan, as quoted in Richard Zacks book Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York:
Not only do [Bryan supporters] wish to repudiate their debts, but they really believe that somehow they are executing righteous justice on the moneyed oppressor.And,
They feel the eternal and inevitable injustice of life, they do not realize and will not realize how that injustice is aggravated by their own extraordinary folly, and they wish , if they cannot lift themselves, at least to strike down those who are more fortunate or more prosperous.
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