The Senator: Levels Of Power

by Mike Gilmore

Levels of The Senator
A Political Thriller series.
Life’s little interruptions. Everybody has them but seldom do they change your life forever One ordinary man—a normal sales call —a deadly event.
Randy Fisher is a sales manager trying to finish the day when suddenly confronted with a national security situation. One moment his is walking beside his customer. The next, the customer is dead and Randy badly wounded by a terrorist bullet.
The opening chapter in The Senator changes Randy’s life as he forces himself to rely on nearly forgotten training learned years before when a military policemen. Somehow, he must survive the next few minutes.
The near catastrophic event shakes the very foundation for millions of Americans. Enough to alter the course of a presidential election.
The changes for Randy continue when the governor of South Carolina sends his name before the United States Senate to fill a vacancy opened by the retirement of Robert Moore. Moore and Randy’s late wife worked together and the retiring senator knows that the powerful egos in Washington will not intimidate the new appointee.
In the Senate only a short time, Randy receives a request through his office in Greenville, SC for federal funding to complete the final development of a new high-efficient solar cell. Supporting the request, he turns to the Department of Energy and their department for advanced research where he meets Annie Willis, a DOE project manager. Together they work to push the $45 million dollar request through channels only at the last minute to have the White House prevent the agency’s approval.
As the relationship between Randy and Annie develops, so does their investigation into the sudden loss of support for their project. Powerful forces connected to the Oval Office lie behind the decision. Perhaps more than a newly appointed senator can handle.
The Senator is the first novel in the Levels of Power series. Millions of Americans today tire of the political bickering in Washington DC. Now you can read about a politician the judges the issues as to right or wrong instead of left or right.

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 21, 2016

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.