The Third Party

About the Book

The American voters are presented with a refreshing new political party and presidential candidate, but underneath all the glitter and promises are lies, deception and conspiracy. Jerry Hotziger, a once brilliant political consultant, has fallen out of favor with his party. The cutting edge campaign strategies that worked so well for him in the eighties have become unpopular and too controversial. Now he is broke and looking for a job. The story begins when Jerry Hotziger meets with a mysterious couple at the Watergate Hotel. They propose a plan that will ensure the re-election of their party’s presidential candidate. They offer him the turnkey project - organizing a new third party and recruiting the right presidential candidate who can be controlled and manipulated so the vote in the major opposition party is fractured. He desperately needs a job and the nearly five million dollars in securities offered him. His objective is to legitimately organize the new party and recruit the right presidential candidate using twenty million dollars in front money from “anonymous donors” who support the underlying foundation of the new party. He must carefully develop a candidate in a way so he will not draw the voters away from the real backers, but draw at least ten percent of the votes from the opposition party, thus ensuring the cause of the backers. He cleverly recruits Jason Scott Smith, a 38-year-old conservative and former unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives for the job, but he soon discovers the young man’s charisma has an overwhelming affect on voters in both parties. The backers are outraged by Hotziger’s apparent lack of control when it comes to directing his candidate toward certain targeted issues; they demand he put a stop to it or they will take care of it themselves.

About the Author

Charles N. Slayton spent fourteen years in design and construction of nuclear power plants during their heyday. He later spent twenty-five years managing his own construction business. He is recently retired and making time to write stories about his interest including technical, political and religious subjects. White Elephants began twenty-five years ago with Slayton’s desire to tell the untold story of America’s nuclear power industry. The characters in the story will entertain you as it is told through their eyes; he also endeavors to present factual and credible historical information to the reader.