By popular demand, here’s the video my younger son and I put together to ballyhoo my new novel, The Insurrectionist.
The topic? A reporter pursuing a Jan. 6-related story ends up entangling two families—including his own—in an FBI investigation. The Insurrectionist, a darkly satirical novel, lampoons the news media and woke America.
Check out the novel here.
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Fiction! Disinformation! Run and hide, while there’s still time!
They told my agent my new novel could not be published. Too dangerous! You’re not allowed to question the Jan. 6 narrative, they said. It was the worst crisis since the Civil War, since the Visigoths sacked Rome. Delete your account.
He tried valiantly, but there were no takers, and we parted ways amicably. So I am publishing The Insurrectionist myself. And today the novel launches, in both paperback and ebook formats.
What’s it about?
Denied a promised posting in Paris, Ian Landquart, a reporter with the storied Chicago Bullet newspaper, is shunted off to a suburban bureau and assigned to redact racist language from the historical archives.
To salvage his career, he investigates an elephant-owning farmer who protested nonviolently on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. But as Ian gins up an FBI probe, he learns that his progressive teenage daughter is dating the farmer’s conservative, gun-owning son—ensnaring the teens in the case.
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