Jason Wilder is born in Chicago, and from birth it is obvious that he is not like other people. He has no conscience. He moves to Phoenix to attend Arizona State University and becomes a salesman on a used car lot. After working his way up to owning three Phoenix auto dealerships by questionable means, he runs for and is elected governor of Arizona with the help of crooked Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Balboni. He exploits his office to enrich himself by accepting kickbacks from state contractors. Near the end of his second term as governor, he is approached by the multibillionaire and ultraconservative Hogson brothers, who control American politics and promise to make him president of the United States in exchange for government policies favorable to their economic interests. Jason agrees but chafes under the Hogsons' control. Can he break his agreement with the Hogsons after he is elected and survive? Can he keep Sheriff Balboni from blackmailing him? This is a work of fiction, but could it really happen? How corrupt are out politicians? Who controls our politics? How big a role do the ultra-rich play in picking our leaders, and could a psychopath really be elected president? If your political sensibilities are easily offended, you may want to give this book a pass, because it exposes the corrupt underbelly of American politics.
About the Author: Jack held a variety of unusual jobs after graduating from high school in Johnstown, Pennsylvania including a job as a translator in a vacation resort in Spain, a stint in the Swedish Merchant Marine, and another as a civilian electrician working for the British Army on the Rhine in Hannover, Germany. When he returned to the U.S., he worked his way through Arizona State University as a disk jockey and then spent a year in graduate school studying German literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Jack returned to Phoenix where he supervised a quality control department at Motorola Semiconductors before teaching communications and digital electronics for eight years at the Phoenix campus of DeVry University. From DeVry he went to work for In-Stat in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1990, where he began the company's original microprocessor service. Jack left In-Stat in 1992 to found Micrologic Research. After retirement in 2011, he completed four years of undergraduate studies in the French language, which included one year at Stendhal University in Grenoble, France.