About the book
Imagine the Capital City of this nation is run by a womanizing, cocaine-snorting, morally bankrupt tyrant (not entirely impossible!). Imagine further that in the midst of a tryst with a highly-placed government official, he discovers that she is taping him. Imagine further that in the ensuing dust-up one of his minions shoots and kills her. And, finally, imagine that a contractor witnesses it all -- and the Mayor, seeing her, orders his minions to kill her as well.
Now slow things down, because the people you see are not what they seem. The man who killed the Mayor's doxy is an angry, reckless person -- but he has a conscience, and also he's beginning to fall in love with the woman he's been commissioned to kill. And the contractor is no victim -- she's shrewd, ruthless, and resourceful, and knows how to manipulate things to her advantage. And the mayor, who knows when to cut bait, eventually decides to call in a professional. By luck of the draw, his hit man is also a lunatic. The ensuing chaos is both preposterous and sad, but, in the end, just.
Loosely inspired by the actual reign of former DC Mayor Marion Barry, debut authors Lee Hurwitz and Tim Treanor have written a darkly hilarious political satire that irreverently dissects the mayor's misguided nature and fall from grace.
The authors of this page-turner live and work in the Washington, DC area. Hurwitz spent nearly eleven years working for the D.C. City Government during the turbulent Marion Barry years. Treanor is a trial lawyer for the federal government and has been active in politics. He also has authored and produced a play, and has appeared in more than a dozen theatrical productions.