The coyotes of Carthage : a novel

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Label

The coyotes of Carthage : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Steven Wright

Creator

• Wright, Steven, 1979-

Author

• Wright, Steven, 1979-

Subject

• Political consultants -- Fiction
• Political thrillers
• Public land sales -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• South Carolina -- Fiction
• Referendum -- Fiction
• Manipulative behavior -- Fiction

Genre

• Political thrillers
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the highest bidder. Dre arrives in God-fearing, flag-waving Carthage County, with only Mrs. Fitz's well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan as his team. Dre, an African-American outsider, can't be the one to collect the signatures needed to get on the ballot. So he hires a blue-collar couple, Tyler Lee and his pious wife, Chalene, to act as the initiative's public face. Under Dre's cynical direction, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre's increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the last remnants of his own humanity

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3623.R5649

LC item number

C69 2020

Literary form

fiction