Steve Gilreath

Sell Montana (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a decade, Dan, Evan, and Bullseye will meet. It's a different world, with our country on the verge of collapse. Years of promises by Congress to give everything to everyone have to be paid for. The citizenry is taxed to the max and riots break out cross country as a reaction to no jobs, no hope.

Newly elected President Dan Crowley, who cares more about rescuing the country than personal gain, sequesters a bunch of smart folks at Camp David for desperate brainstorming to solve the budget problem and save the union. Three red-eyed days later, a reserved Cabinet member recommends shyly, "why not sell Montana?" Snickers ensue until President Crowley writes one word on his electronic board: "Sovereignty!"

What if the government seized Montana and sold it to a sovereign people group with an established heritage and resources, but no homeland? "Like the Christian Kurds in Iran and Iraq. Israel would likely pay a few trillion to help the Palestinians find a home, right?" The President commissions committees to study the feasibility in rapid fashion. He declares the best chance at saving the country is to sell Montana!

Word leaks out and Bullseye Magee, a Montana rancher, tourist-trap-operator, and hunting guide who is as attractive as she is cunning, but uses both to hide a dark past, is at the center of it all, and kicks up a secession movement, recruiting the Governor, militias and rich transplanted ranchers. Her mixed loyalties as hunting guide to the Vice President and his DC pals could make her choices confusing, but Bullseye always takes care of herself first.

Evan Morris, a seasoned guy with movie-star good looks, mostly because he was a movie star before time and Hollywood pushed him aside, finds himself drafted into the secession revolution despite paper-thin convictions.

Their lives collide right about the time the first Autonomous Flying Car takes off and the economy crashes. A series of subplots launch, including attempts to steal herds of wild animals and other resources from the state, while our country turns inside out, spinning toward an unlikely ending!

Politics in DC and Montana, the crush of overspending by Congress over the decades, diamond mines and militia meetings all play roles in the struggle as the president decides if the best way to save the other 49 states is to Sell Montana!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SGTV, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 702
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781735527116
• Artikelnr.: 60158410

Autorenporträt

I need to find that picture. The one where I water skied directly over a five-foot alligator, while on the edge of the Pearl River Swamp outside New Orleans with a couple of high school buddies. We snapped it a few minutes after I hit the gator, dropped the rope, and climbed a cypress tree, still wearing my water skis! Turns out the gator was already dead, so being young guys, we dragged it in the boat and took pics with our heads in the beast's mouth, his head in our mouths, dancing with it, fighting...until our Kodak 126 Instamatic ran out of film. I have a few of the pictures and one creepy hand with jagged claws preserved in a jar of formaldehyde to prove it. I scribbled down that story while in high school, along with some speeches for student council, scouting adventures, and other snippets of my history, which I stumble across from time to time. And a journal from the weeks I spent working miles at sea on an oilrig, the rite of passage for many Louisiana boys, which was the first long-form writing sample I can remember. There was a lot of emotion-mostly fear and loneliness in those words, scratched in my normally messy handwriting, made worse by the vibration of the rig. I've always captured and told stories, from my time in New Orleans as a scout to my magic act on NCL Cruise Ships (a significant upgrade from the oil rig life,) through Fraternity life at LSU, where my oddity as a non-drinking fraternity boy allowed me to embellish previous nights' activity of the brothers for all our entertainment. My storytelling improved as a producer and let me say that working with broadcast crews kneaded by experiences from all over the world, on top of interactions with celebrities, is a breeding ground for great material! I've spent time with two Presidents (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush), produced tv-events with legendary performers Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Charlie Daniels, CeCe Winans, Kathie Lee Gifford, Rascal Flatts, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, a Backstreet Boy, two of three Baldwins, the Jonas Bros., and somehow was asked to loan my talents in writing/producing/directing to a series for Frank Peretti, America's Dumbest Criminals for Aaron Spelling and hundreds of others. I've written a lot of scripts over the years and helped others carve out their platforms. Over a decade I did a little carving of my own with my first novel, SELL MONTANA. It has been one of the joys of my life but doesn't come close to the joy I feel with my family. I help as a men's leader at Christ Community Church and still hold the record as the only 'Three Time Girl Scouts Father/Daughter Dance Contest Champion' at Walnut Grove Elementary. Denise and I watch our amazing kids take on the world from Franklin, Tennessee.