“Well, pull out some firepower and get his ass back here!” The Secretary of State screams.A State Department employee carrying top secret documents has been kidnapped — eventhough he was guarded by the Lincoln bedroom janitor — and now he’s being held by nudistsand members of the Church of the Holy Tryst.The Secretary of State knows the documents must be retrieved at any cost, but he doesn’t trustany of the government security agencies. So he turns to his pot-smoking aide and a band ofmisfit citizens who are pledged to save the country and get the job done.As time is running out, the cross-country race to save America gets even weirder. Following theirleader Paulie, the disc jockeys, a one-eyed demolition expert, a sex-starved Russian woman,and the others follow clues that lead them right to the nation’s capital.Along the way, they are chased by cartels and attacked by hillbillies and hitmen. As the storyunfolds, burning questions spawn: • Can they find the kidnapped janitor and courier and save America? • Does Paulie’s mother-in-law really believe that Frank Sinatra has reincarnated as a lapdog? • Why does the owner of Wanda’s School of Passionate Discipline and Leather Craft Emporium have a direct line to theWhite House? • Who is the dead guy in the back seat, and why do they want him delivered toWashington? • And who the hell is Voice?Get the answers as you find out what really goes on behind the political scenes in America—while you laugh, shake your head, and cheer on the underdogs.CODENAME: ECLECTICS Author BioJack Straw writes sarcastically hilarious stories—both fiction and nonfiction (as if there’s adifference in today’s world)—with two simple goals in mind: truth and humor. It’s that simple.After living life on all sides of the track (and sometimes on the track with the train gettingprecariously close), he has become a diehard student in the school of bizarre human behavior.The lesson he’s learned is: real is real, and it doesn’t have to be boring.He currently lives in the Midwest with his wife, two cats, and one dog—with Ray Wylie Hubbardand Bonnie Raitt singing in the background.
