The Serpent and the Mongoose

by J.A. Coniglio, Jeff Edelstein, Michael Vaughn (Editor)

Meet Jack Kirkner… child of the 1980s, native New Orleanian, a prototype of Generation X gone awry… A perfect storm of superior ability and underachievement resulting in a cynical self-examination of a life teetering between satire and farce… A second-string political strategist by trade, his real occupation is observing in grumbling revolt against the tides of his age, until he meets an enigmatic contemporary whose bizarre agenda plunges him into madness and mayhem…From aimless obscurity, Jack soon finds himself forced to navigate the sordid minefield of political and media intrigue, certain of neither the path that will free him from the labyrinth, nor the reason for its very existence…Divorced from society, alienated from the woman he loves, and at war with the dreaded Establishment, he discovers that deciphering the motives of one man could determine the fate of an entire generation…

488 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2020