A Higher Betrayal: A Wayward Patriot Thriller

by Jack Meyer, Carrie Cannella (Editor)

Overview

Rick Taylor leads a quiet life, running a small business with his wife in Minnesota, until he's inspired to run for an open US Senate seat. Rick and his wife Maggie run a creative campaign, but it's an uphill slog against the political elites. Rick's life is sent reeling when people start dying and he finds himself at odds with his own party and the president who is lying to the American people about his plans to secure the southern border. Instead, using artificial intelligence, the president executes his ominous plan that nobody sees coming.

Follow Rick from Washington D.C. to the boundary waters of northern Minnesota to south Texas as he struggles to stay alive while seeking to comprehend and unmask the president's secret agenda.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986293141
Publisher:	Peak Performance, Inc, DBA 3ppress
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Series:	Wayward Patriot
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Jack develops characters that are based on "every day" people who ironically get caught up in situations they never envisioned. He expands on intriguing and complicated circumstances that will generate a variety of emotions in unique circumstances. Each character's mental and moral qualities vary though their intentions are for good. In the end, his stories draw you into the human experience.

Editorial Reviews

2024-09-06
A political thriller about a country gone awry and a politician trying to save it.

Meyer follows upInDefense of the Grid(2023) with book three in the Wayward Patriot series. In this installment, Minnesota native Patrick “Rick” Taylor becomes a United States senator. Rick, a humble type who goes to Washington with an intact moral compass, is helped along the campaign trail by a plucky song his wife Maggie writes. The president, one Gerald Donaldson, is pleased that Rick is in his party, though time will tell if Rick will toe the party line. (It soon becomes apparent that he will not.) Donaldson wants to dispatch the U.S. military to the southern border, ostensibly to halt illegal immigration and fight drug cartels. The plan involves the use of specially designed AI drones that will attack anyone carrying a weapon. Donaldson’s true intentions are much more aggressive, however, and he wants Rick’s vote to move the measure forward. When Rick refuses, the trouble begins: An assassin is dispatched to Minnesota to kill Rick and Maggie and make it look like a murder-suicide. Shortly thereafter, the operation at the border escalates into a deadly fiasco. Rick’s road to danger is lengthy—a large portion of early chapters are about him getting elected, with quite an emphasis on his wife’s song. (He later recalls of the tune, “I couldn’t have been prouder or more grateful.”) This is not the typical approach for a thriller; while a musically talented spouse does not add much to the narrative, the story bucks the conventions of the genre in ways readers will appreciate. Rick is not the toughest protagonist around, nor does he possess extensive training or secret knowledge; he simply wants to vote in congress how he sees fit. When the plot gets up and moving, and bullets start flying, readers will be compelled to find out where his moral compass will guide him.

Though slow to start, this novel features a unique hero cutting his own path through deadly circumstances.

Kirkus Reviews