Don't Ask Don't Tell

<p>A veteran sports columnist unexpectedly loses his job.</p><p>A rebellious young writer takes a weed-clouded trip to Southern California with a tawdry dropout.</p><p>An English teacher at a prep school toils in vain on a breakthrough novel watching his teen-aged pupils grow rebellious and decadent.</p><p>All are related. All are drawn together as they gradually learn they are pawns in a vast illegal conspiracy.</p><p>The columnist's new job is not one he chooses. The young writer mistakenly believes she is selling drugs by choice and rationalizes it in the name of writing a tell-all novel. The teacher sees in his charges mistakes he has already made.</p><p>One is another's daughter. She is the other's lover.</p><p>Everything will be fine as long as they are obedient. <em>Don't Ask Don't Tell</em>.</p><p>Against the backdrop of a presidential election a group of powerful men work to corner the market on the illicit sale of marijuana. They have members with ties to tobacco entertainment law enforcement national security and politics.</p><p>Innocent people are being shot down in the streets by policemen who never are punished. Could this be more than a coincidence?</p><p>The plan seems perfect ... until the election of Martin Gaynes a man as corrupt as those who run the Consortium. Extreme measures are necessary as a potential dictatorship rises in the tumult.</p><p>No one no matter how far from the center of power is safe. No one can afford to mind his (or her) own business. <em>Don't Ask Don't Tell</em> becomes dangerous impractical and deadly.</p><p> </p>