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    The Coyotes of Carthage: A Novel
    The Coyotes of Carthage: A Novel
    The Coyotes of Carthage: A Novel
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    The Coyotes of Carthage: A Novel

    Written by Steven Wright

    Narrated by Glenn Davis

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    “With this splendid debut, Steven Wright announces his arrival as a major new voice in the world of political thrillers. I enjoyed it immensely.” —John Grisham

    A blistering and thrilling debut—a biting exploration of American politics, set in a small South Carolina town, about a political operative running a dark money campaign for his corporate clients

    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.

    A piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man’s unraveling, The Coyotes of Carthage paints a disturbingly real portrait of the American experiment in action.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9780062951694
    Author

    Steven Wright

    Steven Wright has performed stand-up comedy for more than four decades. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his albums I Have a Pony and I Still Have a Pony, starred in three critically acclaimed hour-long stand-up specials, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. He also won the 1989 Academy Award for Live-Action Short for his film, The Appointment of Dennis Jennings, and he wrote and directed the short film, One Soldier. His many film and TV appearances include Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Late Show with David Letterman, The Larry Sanders Show, Mad About You, Horace and Pete, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, Coffee and Cigarettes, Half Baked and Desperately Seeking Susan. He lives in New England.

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    • 4/5
      Book on CD performed by Glenn Davis Andre Ross has made a mistake. And it may end his career as a hotshot political consultant. But, his mentor agrees to give him one more chance. Sent to a backwater community in South Carolina, he’s tasked with passing an initiative that no one has even considered. He has an assistant (who is the partner’s grandson, and completely green) and a limited budget. But he KNOWS how to do this. Dre is something of an enigma. He’s clearly intelligent and well-informed. He is a professional whose middle name may as well be “cutthroat,” and will take whichever side is paying his salary. He’s also deeply troubled. The fact that he’s a black man in a blue-collar white community in the deep south doesn’t deter him, though that does pose some challenges. As the novel progresses the reader begins to see signs that Dre isn’t so sure this is the right path for him. He seems to be falling apart. Will his conscience, long silenced, win out? Will he win this election? Will he keep his job? Does he want to? I found this riveting and informative. I could not help but think of our current political climate and the way the populace is manipulated by the message. A tweak here, a slightly different phrasing there, a negative connotation “accidentally” floated onto the local gossip mill, a charismatic young woman whom everyone knows is a “good person” … and you have everyone ready to vote against their own best interest and in favor of the candidate or position least likely to actually benefit them. Glenn Davis does a marvelous job of narrating the audiobook. He sets a good pace and differentiated the characters sufficiently that it was always clear who was speaking.
    • 4/5
      I'm not opposed to unlikeable characters, but when every person you meet in a novel is a mess, it's tough to maintain interest. Here, Dre Ross, a Black political operative/lobbyist has made a deadly mistake in his burgeoning career (inexplicably, no details on the screwup) and is given one more assignment by his wealthy white mentor, who owns the K Street shop. It's to get approval for a mining operation in Carthage, a lovely, unspoiled South Carolina hamlet, by tying in some nonsense about displaying the Bill of Rights in every public building, and by scapegoating the only elected official with a brain and a heart. Dre's partner Brendan is the grandson of his mentor, but he quits when Dre rejects his offer of friendship and when his loathing of the corruption that lies at the heart of the entire enterprise defeats him. Dre, who had also been painfully rejected by his girlfriend (how much misery is enough?), is completely unable to make any friends, due to his deep knowledge of the impact of racism, his miserable childhood, and his own suspicious nature. Enter a white evangelical couple who Dre hires as local operatives and who bloom under his tutelage. He does not want to like them or to do anything but scoff at their gullibility and their naïve ways, but they truly adore him and he is still unable to accept their kindness. Everything is rotten in the state of South Carolina for Dre.
    • 5/5
      In this political thriller political operative Dre Ross is sent to South Carolina with dark money to use to convince voters there to sell public lands to a mining group, which in the end will do more harm than help their community. This was a great look at how these operations are run in our country today, making it a timely read as too often big corporations' interests take precedence over people's. I found it a fascinating tale.