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Jon Pepper

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Jon Pepper is a novelist based in Miami.

His newest novel, "Run Robbie Run," debuted June 16, 2026. It's a fast, sharply comic political satire that aims its barbs at the modern campaign machine, media incentives, and the wealthy “do-gooder” class. One review observed: "What makes this work is the voice: brisk, confident, and unapologetically satirical. Pepper writes with a comedian’s timing and a columnist’s eye for hypocrisy."

Jon Pepper's six novels form distinctive set of modern satirical fiction—mainly focused on business, politics, and popular culture. They have won praise from critics and readers alike for their humor, insight, clear prose, and brisk pacing.

"Run Robbie Run" is the first of a three-book series. It carries some of the s Jon Pepper is a novelist based in Miami.

His newest novel, "Run Robbie Run," debuted June 16, 2026. It's a fast, sharply comic political satire that aims its barbs at the modern campaign machine, media incentives, and the wealthy “do-gooder” class. One review observed: "What makes this work is the voice: brisk, confident, and unapologetically satirical. Pepper writes with a comedian’s timing and a columnist’s eye for hypocrisy."

Jon Pepper's six novels form distinctive set of modern satirical fiction—mainly focused on business, politics, and popular culture. They have won praise from critics and readers alike for their humor, insight, clear prose, and brisk pacing.

"Run Robbie Run" is the first of a three-book series. It carries some of the same characters from his five-book series, Fossil Feuds, which centers around members of the founding family behind the century-old Crowe Power Company as they battle politicians, competitors, and each other.

A native of Michigan, Jon won numerous awards as a national writer and business columnist for The Detroit News. He subsequently became the president of a start-up firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an executive for two Fortune 100 companies before starting his own strategic communications agency, Indelable, in New York.

His first book, "A Turn in Fortune," was published in 2018. It's a satirical take on the personal rivalries that erupt atop Crowe Power after its chairman Robbie Crowe learns his CEO is getting all the credit for the firm's sudden success.

"Heirs on Fire," a follow-up released in 2020, follows Robbie Crowe as he fights for respect and recognition while dealing with an estranged wife, a manipulative mistress, a takeover threat, and a possible revolt in his storied family. The New York Post called it "a clever corporate satire." Kirkus Reviews said it was "wickedly funny."

In "Green Goddess," the first female leader in the company's long history struggles to transition the firm from fossil fuels to green energy until she finds a revolutionary way forward inside a Crowe Power research lab.

"Missy's Twitch" chronicles the journey of Crowe Power heiress Missy Mayburn Crowe, as she struggles with overwhelming anxiety about climate change. Fearing her family is partially responsible for a possible catastrophe, she develops an involuntary twitch, diagnosed by an opportunistic therapist as "climatosis." Her prominence and notoriety leads to her recruitment as a spokesperson for a political agenda.

The final book in the series, "Hostile Climate," is about how a politician’s campaign to blame Lindsey Crowe and her company for climate change creates dangerous situations for her and New York City.

Jon's career as a journalist, executive and entrepreneur gave him a front row seat in the corner suites, estates, private jets and first- class hotels where the business and political elite dwell. With an eye for human quirks and vanities, Jon captures the multiple dimensions of life among the elites with entertaining accuracy.

"I've always loved good satires, from MAD magazine and National Lampoon to Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, and Christopher Buckley," Jon says. "My first goal is to entertain. I take no responsibility for what happens after that."

Jon's wife, Diane Pepper, has designed the covers of all his books. ...more

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RUN ROBBIE RUN: A Political Comedy in Three Despicable Acts

Since professional book reviewers barely exist anymore, I asked the computers that took their jobs about my new novel, RUN ROBBIE RUN, which comes out June 16.

All I had to do was feed a PDF into their little AI inquiry thingy and they spit out a review. While they don't talk a lot, all my bot buddies agreed it was totally worth the minute or two it took to read it.

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