In the quiet library of his luxurious penthouse apartment in Washington, DC, Wallace Lamont, Chairman of a large industrial conglomerate, plots the defeat of Congressman Matthew Monroe in the upcoming primary election.
He is a retired Executive Vice President of Southwest Research Institute..
He is intimately familiar with the canyon country about which he writes, and has been an Amazon Kindle Top 100 Author.
He has spent many enjoyable days and nights hiking, jeeping, rafting, and camping out in the backcountry of the Four Corners area.
About the Author: RICH Curtin is the author of the popular Manny Rivera Mystery Series.
It sometimes takes on a life of its own.
Once trouble like this is started, it can be hard to rein in.
Things quickly get out of hand, leading to devastating consequences for certain local citizens.
He\'s creative and effective, and wastes no time pitting environmentalists against cattlemen who graze their herds on public lands.
Oblonsky arrives in Moab, Utah, and takes steps to stir up trouble.
Lamont hires a political operative by the name of Oblonsky who specializes in dirty tricks.
By re-igniting the flames of discontent in rural Utah, Lamont hopes to turn the voting public against Monroe.
Lamont\'s plan is to resurrect the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1980s, a time when the hard working citizens who lived in the West and used public lands for cattle grazing, timber cutting, and mining, fought against the Bureau of Land Management and its burdensome environmental regulations.
The Congressman, a staunch environmentalist from southern Utah, is blocking a large contract that Lamont\'s firm desperately needs.
In the quiet library of his luxurious penthouse apartment in Washington, DC, Wallace Lamont, Chairman of a large industrial conglomerate, plots the defeat of Congressman Matthew Monroe in the upcoming primary election
