The Deadly Candidate is a contemporary action-thriller novel about the efforts of one man, John Wynters, to exact revenge by trying to bring to justice the U.S. congressman who killed his family in a lethal car accident. His effort incidentally reveals glaring corruption surrounding the congressman and local officials. But a powerful cabal protects the congressman in his bucolic south-central Pennsylvania constituency. The criminals will stop at nothing to thwart Wynters, and his beautiful friend, Andromeda Winfield, from revealing their corruption - including kidnapping and assassination!John Wynters uses his Navy SEALS and Secret Service background to bring Congressman Foley Sullivan, representing Chicamony City in south-central Pennsylvania, to justice. But he has to contend with the stranglehold the corrupt Stinnus Cabal has on this rural county. Bernard "Swig" Stinnus, Jr., the apparent head of the Cabal, is equally determined not to let Wynters disrupt their local political and economic control and reveal damaging secrets.Wynters is also involved with Andy Winfield, a beautiful public school teacher who was once married to Stinnus. Wynters desperately wants to make amends to her for seemingly causing the death of her father. The two of them are talked into running for office in the local elections in November, which earns them still more enemies.A series of events to discourage Wynters leads to more lethal measures when he doesn't back off. Finally, a Stinnus strongman attempts to abduct Wynters. Using his considerable training, he manages to escape, only to find that Winfield has now been kidnapped and kept hostage to force him to stop his vendetta. After Wynters has to foil an assassination attempt on himself, he decides to attack the Cabal at its source and corral the mysterious figure pulling the strings.But can Wynters reveal the corruption of the cabal and secure a conviction of the guilty including Congressman Sullivan while fighting off the attacks of the petty crooks preying on the inattentive public? And can he survive a vicious election campaign?
About the Author: Patrick Fero brings to his writing a life-long fascination with government, management techniques and politics, especially the incompetence and petty corruption that predominates in local governments. He served in the United States Air Force before entering the inner sanctums of federal government service as a civilian after college. Over thirty years of swimming upstream against the bureaucracy led to a series of parables, The Parables of the Tail with No Teeth, illustrating good and bad management practices, that were published serially in a government periodical and subsequently made part of the management curriculum. After retiring in 1993, he wrote The Red-Tape Suicide, a satire on life within the offices of big government bureaucracy. He then embarked upon a new career in small government, becoming an award-winning municipal planner, and serving as a local elected official. He has seen governments from the highest to the lowest. Now he has woven that experience into the fabric underlying The Outsider, a roaring thriller set in small town America, and in the sequel, The Deadly Candidate. Fero looks out at life with his wife of over 50 years on a wooded hilltop in south-central Pennsylvania. http: //patrickfero.blogspot.co