In the year 2050, in a much-reduced America, twenty-three year old Rickey Montey comes under the control of a very rich man who sends him to events in various places in America and has him report back to him on what he sees there. Rickey has no idea why he has to do these things. Unwillingly, he does what he is told, going out into an America in which the computer has been given the status of a cult, where a leading religion is based on stories about alien visitations, where people sidelined from employment by computers lie in bed all day in "Wards of the Liberated," where political speech conforms entirely to political correctness, all news is handled by one giant news service, the American flag is banned in many parts of the nation and plans are underway to place U. N. peacekeeping troops on the U. S. southern border. After a mysterious girl appears and leads him to a group that has set itself in opposition to his new boss, Rickey finally learns the sinister reason the man has sent him on these missions. Rickey then has to decide whether to join the group, and the decision he makes places him at the center of events which could change the course of their country.
No matter what I think of a book or how much time it takes me to get through it, I almost ALWAYS finish what I've started. It's rare for me to give up on a book. Unfortunately, I must add "Ricky Montey" to the list of books I couldn't finish. Just did not like the story or the writing style.