Shakedown Beach

Time for a civics lesson---Jersey style. Jonah Eastman and Jackie Disaster team up for another in the series of Eric Dezenhall''s acclaimed PR crisis manager mysteries.The Governor: Gardner Rebound Rothman---married family values New Jersey Republican with White House fantasies a terrible secret and a controversial position on young interns: he''s for ''em!The Tart: Simone Lava the voluptuous Miss Little Egg Harbor Township. Rebound keeps her hidden away in Atlantic City''s seedy Celebrity Motel where she practices waving like a First Lady---a title she''s been promised if she''ll just lay low during election season.The Fixer: Chief Willie Thundercloud former pro wrestler who runs the Jersey Shore''s most ruthless damage control firm. The chief digs up the macabre truth about the governor.The Pollster: Jonah Eastman maverick political strategist raised by his mobster grandfather who gave Rebound his start. Jonah knows only one thing can save the congenitally deceitful governor: a whopping heartfelt lie.Shakedown Beach rips open the slats of the Atlantic City boardwalk to impart the big lesson of American politics: when forced to look into one''s soul and confront the painful truths of murder corruption and sexual depravity don''t be an idiot---hire the nastiest operatives money can buy and duck dodge and spin to November.