Corruption Incorporated: A Novel

by Taylor Pensoneau

Hard charging Jake Brosky has made a living off his investigative reporting in the Prairie State. Gangsters, a major Nazi fugitive, a missing Hollywood star. He's confronted them all. But, he's never encountered wholesale wrongdoing on teh scale of the current governor's schemes. And to think, the powerful honcho is in the midst of a nationally watched campaign for reelection. His opponent is a folksy candidate from the lower part of the state, a homespun David tackling a policical Goliath. Politicos fall like dominos as Brosky brings one flagrant abuse of the public trust after another to the front pages of the St. Louis World. Along the way, the story line is peppered with an intriguing cast that includes a whistle blower calling himself the Badger, on of Jake's own favorite stool pigeons, a seductive gal filling a coveted governmental internship, crime lords in America and Marseilles and even a devious Spanish treasure hunter. And there's no forgetting a woman harboring a devastating secret while running a gift shop along historic Route 66. Surprise endings are a forte of Brosky's dogged pursuits. Before the climax this time around, Jake gains unprecedented insight into the cunning machinations taking a big state government off the track.

378 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023