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Political Thriller

 

 

Brothers: a novel of political intrigue and family turmoil.

Brothers is a fast paced political thriller.  A modern-day story of
Cain and Abel that asks the question, ‘Am I my brother’s
keeper?’ The answer depends on which brother is asking the question
and the women they encounter.

 

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Speaker of the House or Representatives Gianni Simonelli is a
second-generation New York Italian American hell bent on not being
associated with the Mafia. The problem is his brother is a member of a New
York crime family.

On the Inauguration Day, the newly elected President steps to the podium to
address the nation and is shot and killed by the Secret Service agent
assigned to protect him . Reeling from the assassination Gianni is called
upon to help stabilize the administration.

Someone identified as the ‘Emperor’ leads a domestic terror
organization known as VIPER that has infiltrated America’s national
security agencies to gain control of its military power and wealth. With
evidence the Secret Service and FBI may be part of VIPER, Gianni turns to
CIA Director Jill Shelton to find out who’s behind the insurrection.
As events spiral out of control, Gianni is left with no alternative but to
seek help from his estranged brother Mario.

When the Mafia strikes VIPER in a brutal but effective way to help save the
democracy from being overthrown, Gianni and Shelton face the real
possibility collaborating with the Mafia could result in them becoming crime
family puppets.

 

 

Excerpt 

 

It is a bitter cold, twenty-five-degree, white January day in Washington

D.C. Not just any snowy winter day. Today is January 20th, inauguration

day. At noon, my brother Governor Brandon Alan Gray will take the

oath of office to become President of the United States of America.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous. He is Governor of Illinois, I’m

Governor of Florida. I also wanted to run for President, but the

Republican Party fell in love with my brother’s charismatic, happy talk

line of bullshit. He makes everyone smile, feel good, the perfect party

boy and party candidate. I’m a policy wonk. Apparently, voters want

their president to be funny, full of warm fuzzy slogans rather than

smart, issue oriented and realistic.

Brandon Alan Gray, BAG, as our family and friends call him,

won what turned out to be one of the most hotly contested races in

American presidential history. And the rub is, he won because of me.

He lost the popular vote to Vice President Gorden Agee, but thanks

to me, Florida Governor Michael Evan Gray, or as our family and

friends call me, MEG, and Florida’s fifty-seven thousand vote margin

of victory, I helped him win, he won 271 electoral college votes, one

more than necessary to be elected president. BAG would have you believe

he won on his own. Do I sound pissed, unappreciated, jealous?

Fuck yes.

Prior to his election, the press called us “pretty and smart.” Guess

who’s smart? Now with his election and my supposed election to

president eight years from now, we are referred to as the Gray Dynasty.

The Democrats like to say we are more shady than gray.

Democrats like to say we are more shady than gray.

I’m sure my folks are proud to have both of their sons be governors

of two of the nation’s largest states. But when BAG and I simultaneously

announced plans to both run for president, my father told me I should

wait. “This is BAG’s time.” He told me I should wait eight years so I

could build on what BAG accomplished. Then, to make matters worse,

he told me if we ran against each other in the primary, I’d lose. Thanks

Dad…I really appreciate the show of confidence. Now my brother is

not only my father’s favorite son, he’s also the party’s favorite son.

I’m making myself mad just thinking about all this shit again. So

yes, I’m pretty fucking jealous of my brother. My consolation prize is

that I’m here. Apparently, my payback for helping him win was the big

deal he made about how he wanted me to sit on the inaugural platform

with my parents.

So here I sit, along with 1600 other people. The difference between

me and the others is they’re all excited to watch the proceedings.

I’m just pretending. In addition to the incoming president and vice

president, I’m surrounded by nearly all the members of Congress, the

Supreme Court, Joint Chiefs, governors and former presidents and

vice presidents.

 

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