The World Continue's Towards TOTAL MELTDOWN
Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 Under: Total Meltdown
From "The Inferno" at http://theartistchallengeinferno.blogspot.com/2009/09/total-meltdown-story-of-political.html:
Raymond Gaynor teams with gifted writer and best selling author, William Maltese, on TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo Press), a novel of sexual and political intrigue. Raymond (aka Gary Martine) is a reclusive author new to the m/m erotic romance genre and author of KINGSLEY & I and KINGSLEY & I TOGETHER (MLR Press). William has published over 200 novels, spanning the genre’s, many of which can be found on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com not to mention the shelves of most local book stores.
An annotated excerpt from TOTAL MELTDOWN:
Seen separately, Tripler and Clarke seemed to have nothing in common. They appeared decidedly mismatched — audacious caricatures of the 1950’s cartoon strip’s Mutt and Jeff. Their seemingly ludicrous pairing made people underestimate their political talents — a situation Tripler and Clarke used to advantage.
Tripler, despite his brawny no-brain looks, was actually an inveterate conversationalist and razor-sharp political analyst with inside connections into virtually every government in the world. Clarke, the more reclusive, was a world-class computer expert with access, one way or another, into virtually every existent governmental, military, and civil computer and telecommunications network. Together, they were the heart and soul of a political triad with Jackson the avatar and voice.
In Harvard, they and now President-elect Jackson had converged at the local watering hole — three rejects pushed at the same serendipitous moment out of the social scene and into a side booth to find each other. Sparks of intellectual electricity flashed and exploded between them. After a few beers, they reached general consensus regarding their peers astounding political ineptness. This quickly became the nidus of what later proved a lifelong enterprise.
“Tripler,” President-Election Jackson now said, “I need you to access your sources and see how the key players stand in regard to the ‘rumors’ that the U.S. will by morning be facing an unprecedented economic and political downturn. Emphasize the word ‘rumor’ and see where it takes you. I want to know specifics: who, what, when, where and how.”
Then he turned his attention back to Tripler’s lover.
“Clarke …”
Anticipating President-Elect Jackson, Clarke cut in: “There’s a decided increase in on-line phrases like ‘economic meltdown,’ — ‘civil war’ — ‘opportunity for invasion.’ Worse, telecommunication chatter out of Eurasia about the Vladivostok Military Exercises suggests they are escalating in size well beyond what the Russians and Chinese are saying publically...”
©2009 Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese
TOTAL MELTDOWN, a novel of political intrigue
By Gary Martine (writing as Raymond Gaynor) and William Maltese
ISBN-10: 1434403556
ISBN-13: 978-1434403551
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556
Raymond Gaynor teams with gifted writer and best selling author, William Maltese, on TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo Press), a novel of sexual and political intrigue. Raymond (aka Gary Martine) is a reclusive author new to the m/m erotic romance genre and author of KINGSLEY & I and KINGSLEY & I TOGETHER (MLR Press). William has published over 200 novels, spanning the genre’s, many of which can be found on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com not to mention the shelves of most local book stores.
An annotated excerpt from TOTAL MELTDOWN:
Seen separately, Tripler and Clarke seemed to have nothing in common. They appeared decidedly mismatched — audacious caricatures of the 1950’s cartoon strip’s Mutt and Jeff. Their seemingly ludicrous pairing made people underestimate their political talents — a situation Tripler and Clarke used to advantage.
Tripler, despite his brawny no-brain looks, was actually an inveterate conversationalist and razor-sharp political analyst with inside connections into virtually every government in the world. Clarke, the more reclusive, was a world-class computer expert with access, one way or another, into virtually every existent governmental, military, and civil computer and telecommunications network. Together, they were the heart and soul of a political triad with Jackson the avatar and voice.
In Harvard, they and now President-elect Jackson had converged at the local watering hole — three rejects pushed at the same serendipitous moment out of the social scene and into a side booth to find each other. Sparks of intellectual electricity flashed and exploded between them. After a few beers, they reached general consensus regarding their peers astounding political ineptness. This quickly became the nidus of what later proved a lifelong enterprise.
“Tripler,” President-Election Jackson now said, “I need you to access your sources and see how the key players stand in regard to the ‘rumors’ that the U.S. will by morning be facing an unprecedented economic and political downturn. Emphasize the word ‘rumor’ and see where it takes you. I want to know specifics: who, what, when, where and how.”
Then he turned his attention back to Tripler’s lover.
“Clarke …”
Anticipating President-Elect Jackson, Clarke cut in: “There’s a decided increase in on-line phrases like ‘economic meltdown,’ — ‘civil war’ — ‘opportunity for invasion.’ Worse, telecommunication chatter out of Eurasia about the Vladivostok Military Exercises suggests they are escalating in size well beyond what the Russians and Chinese are saying publically...”
©2009 Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese
TOTAL MELTDOWN, a novel of political intrigue
By Gary Martine (writing as Raymond Gaynor) and William Maltese
ISBN-10: 1434403556
ISBN-13: 978-1434403551
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556
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