Exit Blue

by Ivan G. Goldman

Ivan Goldman envisions a riotous near future in which the Blue States have seceded and formed their own union following a disastrous US invasion of Denmark, now deemed the central front in the war on terror. It's one of several conflicts being waged by a zealous Red Zone government in Washington that reportedly dispatches press gangs to fill military ranks while its citizens flee to Mexico seeking employment as domestics and busboys. Tossed into this maelstrom is ghost writer Delmore LeCorte, who becomes romantically entangled with both the Red Zone president and her more astute sister. Learning secrets he'd rather not know, LeCorte is pursued by a deranged vice president who reportedly rules his domain from a lair deep beneath the Rockies and a ruthless Blue Zone senator who's the love child of a famously randy Democratic ex-President. It's left to the reader to decide whether Exit Blue is inventive political satire or a prescient look at more divisive times ahead.

230 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

New York Times best-selling author. Fulbright scholar, Army vet.




Goldman's 5th novel The Debtor Class (Permanent Press, 2015) is a 'gripping ...triumphant read,' says Publishers Weekly. A future cult classic with 'howlingly funny dialogue,' says Booklist.

Isaac: A Modern Fable (Permanent Press, 2012) is "an overcoming-the-odds love story that demands to be read, with characters so real that we wish we could reach into the book and give them a hug.” -- BookList.

A Fulbright Scholar, his writing has appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Utne Reader, The Nation, National Review, Rolling Stone, The Ring, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His previous novel The Barfighter was nominated as a 2009 Notable Book by the American Library Association.