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
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| 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
