Digging the Golden Fungus

<p><strong><em>The SwiftPad Insurgency</em></strong> the second book in the <em>SwiftPad </em>trilogy follows the founders and original crew of the Portland-based social media application SwiftPad. Nate Schuette who wrote a sensational novel thirty years earlier (see Barckmann's novel <em>Farewell the Dragon</em>) shows up in Portland with Paula Flayer his promiscuous seventy-five-year-old girlfriend who has not physically aged since her late twenties. But Ben Cadez former Nixon operative and Paula's one-time lover also wields the power of the youth-preserving Golden Fungus and is now a Republican candidate for President. They are all in the crosshairs of a deranged and corrupt President and Portland must decide whether to co-opt or fight.</p>