Center Stage: A Political Thriller

by Wayne Avrashow

Overview

If politics is a game, who better to play it than a master showman like a mega-rock star?
America has adored rock star Tyler Sloan for decades, and when he decides to leave the Las Vegas stage to run for a seat on the United States Senate, it’s assumed that he’ll run an unconventional campaign. He exceeds expectations—and more.
No stranger to politics, Sloan’s estranged father was a California governor who narrowly lost his presidential campaign. It’s this experience—and his performance skills—that render a show-stopping performance as an independent candidate for Senate. He expresses disdain for the two-party system and dismisses special interests and lobbyists. Sloan immediately finds himself caught in a political campaign fraught with scandal, corruption, and conflicting loyalties—personally, politically, and romantically.
Will Sloan be able to handle political turbulence and reckon with his own past while navigating the polls? As the countdown to election day begins, Tyler Sloan is focused on winning and taking center stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645437949
Publisher:	Mascot Books
Publication date:	01/12/2021
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	920,596
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wayne Avrashow was campaign manager for two Los Angeles City councilmembers and served as chief of staff on two government commissions. He has an extensive background in California politics. His experiences in politics, government, business, and as a practicing attorney provide unique insight into the machinations and characters that populate political campaigns.
As a lawyer-lobbyist, he represented clients before numerous California municipalities and in Nevada and Idaho. He has lectured at Southwestern University of Law and taught at Woodbury University in Los Angeles.
He authored numerous op-ed articles that appeared in daily newspapers, as well as in legal, business, and real estate publications. He was chairman of Los Angeles County ballot proposition and co-authored ballot arguments. Wayne authored Success at Mediation—10 Strategic Tools for Attorneys, a book used by law students at the University of Southern California School of Law.
He is the proud father of two sons, Bret and Grant, and is a lifelong resident of Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

2020-09-18
A retired rock star—the son of a veteran politician—decides to run for a vacated seat in the Senate.

After Nevada Sen. Ted Garvey dies, there’s a frantic race for his seat, a crucial one for a Senate equally divided by the two warring political parties. Billy Rogers, an uninspiring “pedestrian pol” with “zero charisma,” takes aim at the vacancy for the Democrats while Chris Collins, a beautiful, talented, but soulless Republican, pounces as well. The monkey wrench in both their plans is Tyler Sloan, an aging rock star willing to retire from his career and devote tens of millions of his vast fortune to becoming the next senator of Nevada. He’s never held public office, but he’s not your average political neophyte either—Sloan’s father, Mike, was a storied Democratic politician who just barely missed occupying the Oval Office. Sloan is beloved, handsome, and charming, but he also has his own baggage—a history of promiscuity and drug use, for starters. Even worse, he once had a “couple of romps” with Collins—including a threesome a quarter-century ago that was immortalized on film. Denny Morgan, a washed-up former rock star, has the tape, but he’s not giving it up for free. Avrashow skillfully takes a shopworn paperback formula—the political outsider bucking convention to do the right thing—and gives it a delightfully fresh take. There’s no shortage of political intrigue depicted with astuteness and emotional drama as well, including the romantic electricity between Tyler and his media consultant Bree Baker. This isn’t exactly All the King’s Men, but it isn’t fluffy pulp-fiction boilerplate either.

An entertaining political thriller—smart and engrossing.

Kirkus Reviews