Levels of Power: The Senator

Levels of Power #1

by Mike Gilmore

Andy Warhol is credited for coining the expression that everybody has 15 minutes of fame in their life. Randy Fisher’s 15 minutes turns into a new life. He’s a regional sales director for a manufacture of industrial electrical equipment and was making a standard sales call at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia. 15 minutes later he has been seriously wounded during a fight with a terrorist but prevents a nuclear incident from affecting the entire country. Two months later our national hero is appointed to fill the un-expired term of his friend, the retiring US Senator Robert Moore. As the junior senator from the Palmetto State Randy moves to Washington DC to assume his new position. He’s only been in office for a few months when he meets Annie Willis, a project manager at the Department of Energy, and together they discover that someone might be stealing millions of dollars from the Federal Government. Join the country’s newest hero as he attempts to un-ravel this Washington DC based political mystery and is forced to confront the President of the United States when it appears that a member of the President’s cabinet is behind the theft.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2013

About the author

At 15 years of age, Mike Gilmore started working for his uncle’s wholesale firm selling candy and tobacco products to small family owned grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants becoming the general manager by the time he was 23. It was a male dominated business at the time and he worked with men who had lived through The Great Depression and World War II.
In 1986, he shifted to the wholesale electrical and plumbing distribution business where he started to learn his current trade. He filled positions as operation manager, branch manager, and regional branch manager in Ohio, Florida, and finally the coastal area of South Carolina.
In 2003, he took a position with one of the world’s largest and most respected manufacture of plumbing fixtures for both residential and commercial products. He has worked as an account manager, market development specialist, and now as a national account manager servicing only one trade distributor that covers the United States, Mexico, and Canada with a sales force of over 1100 associates.
He is the author of the Levels of Power novels featuring United States Senator Randy Fisher. 2013 saw the release of The Senator and The Legislator. His followers will see three Level of Power sequels released in 2014. That same year he released a little gem called The Toilet Salesman…the oh so Necessary Guy. The book covers incidents from 25 years of selling plumbing and electrical products. In 2015, he plans to release the next edition in the Levels of Power Series: The Vice President.
He lives in South Carolina with his wife and two cats.

Reviews

[Ms. Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book from Goodreads First Reads in exchange for an honest review....

This book was really difficult to read primarily to the fact that it was packed full of grammar errors. I'm usually not that critical over the occasional grammar mistake (I make plenty of mistakes myself) but it was a frustrating distraction from what this book was all about. I felt like it was poorly written, sloppy, messy, and irritating to read.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

My rating would have been at least four stars if the book had not been so completely full of mistakes that should have been handled through editing and/or proofreading. They were so numerous that it totally distracted from the story, which really was intriguing. Believe me, that is the only reason I continued to read the book.