The Reluctant Revolution

The convergence of Illinois power politics, a U.S. presidential election, and the Chinese desire for complete global control has the potential to change the course of history. Soon, Macau’s entire economic structure will revert to restrictive control under the People’s Republic of China. Time is of the essence if the Jiang Chinese syndicate is going to “buy” a sitting U.S. President. From a state-level real estate scam to actual control of federal buildings, Jiang will own the very houses of democracy. They can be sold, sabotaged, bugged, anything that he desires. His greatest asset, however, will be the President of the United States. He will control the most powerful country in the world. A crooked Illinois governor, who has been facilitating lucrative and illegal offshore funding of government real estate projects, is positioned to run virtually unopposed for President of the United States. What was to be an electoral certainty is on the verge of being destroyed by an ingenious political treatise and its unsuspecting but well-placed author. THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTION is a political thriller that is as current as today’s news and as alarming as tomorrow’s headlines. A political essay on how to improve government written by the Governor’s senior staffer, Jack Neeley, becomes the cause premier of a national television icon who sweeps the charismatic author into his own presidential campaign and a resulting life and death struggle between the entrenched moguls of international political power, organized crime and the will of the people. Jack is joined by a beautiful agent of the U.S. Secret Service, Christine Howard, who discovers the truth that no one else knows – or dares to investigate. Intense pressures fueled by political motivations far beyond Jack Neeley’s comprehension carry him to the edge of extinction, and the combined power of the public forum and strength of a unique woman catapult him to the pinnacle of success. An average citizen innocently drafted into the service of a political machine, Jack Neeley becomes the promise of what the political system could really be. He could be the next POTUS, but it will take all the resources of the Secret Service to deliver him to the podium to take the oath of office.