Mud: A Political Satire

by Arthur Jay Harris

A POLITICAL SATIRE. An ancient member of the House of Representatives dies during a rant on the chamber floor, and so disappears his party’s one-vote margin. In a special election to determine the House’s majority rulers, one party sends to the boonies its secret weapon—“the most evil man in America,” a political consultant. To counter him, the other party sends its equivalent. Each sees and raises dirty trick for dirty trick, until both candidates are sufficiently slandered and ruined, each unworthy of a single vote. In the end, a near-literal deus ex machina arises to settle the national deadlock—well, for a moment.

74 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 2013

About the author

Arthur Jay Harris is the author of the investigative true crime books Speed Kills, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, Until Proven Innocent and the two-book series with a Single Edition, Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh. He lives in Florida.

For the Adam Walsh case, he has appeared on television many times: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Cold Blood, and on local TV in Miami and Milwaukee. He has also written stories on the case that have appeared in periodical print in The Miami Herald, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and Miami Daily Business Review.

In addition, Art has presented on television other crime stories he has investigated at length, including on the shows Snapped; City Confidential; Prison Diaries, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Hard Copy.