The scripted leader

In a world of manufactured truths, can one man find his own voice before the script burns away?

John Patrick was a ghost in his own life. A former college standout turned janitor, he spent his days mopping the floors of a community center in Oakhaven, Ohio, burying the wreckage of his past under layers of bleach and silence. But when the shadowy political kingmaker Richard Hendrik walks out of the darkness, he doesn't see a janitor-ilhe sees a "Prophet".

With a jawline made for television an...