Political Dirty Trick

From the author:

A Dirty Trick

For some time, I had been thinking about writing a novel that included a slippery slope.  A normally good person, for one reason or the other, crosses over “the line.”  Now they are on a slippery slope and any movement at all is likely to take them further down the slope, further away from the line that defined them as a “good person.”

In fact, I was going to call the book, A Slippery Slope. 

Then came all the uproar in politics. It seemed like each politician was more than happy to trash the other.

That, and the slippery slope rattled around in my brain for months.  As they began to run into one another, I decided to use the election venue to look at this person on the slippery slope. 

The result was my newest suspense book, Political Dirty Trick.  It is Book #3 in the Crystal Moore suspense series.  (A few months before I was ready to publish, I was corresponding with a writer I know. She mentioned she was ready to release a new book, titled “A Slippery Slope.”  When  I told her I was about ready to release one with the same name, she said to go ahead, it wouldn’t bother her. But I decided not to do that. So, it became Political Dirty Trick.)

In Political Dirty Trick, a basically good person is convinced to help a candidate by creating a dirty trick that would give the opponent lots of negative publicity and perhaps hurt him in the polls.  She agreed, convincing herself that it wasn’t really wrong. All is fair in politics.

But in the course of creating this, a man is killed. Now, she panics and tries to cover her tracks. This, as could be expected, leads to more problems. And before long, she will do anything to avoid the police. The slope is steeper and slipperier. 

Crystal is a good friend of the candidate on whom the dirty trick is played.  As she tries to determine who is causing the problems, she becomes a “loose end” that needs to be snipped off.  And much of the novel is trying to save Crystal, as well as save the campaign.

Political Dirty Trick releases in mid-May.  It is available for pre-publication orders at:  https://amzn.to/2pIHMqs     

James Callan

After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing.  He has had four non-fiction books published.  He now concentrates on his favorite genre, mystery/suspense. His twelfth book releases in May, 2018

http://www.jamesrcallan.com.