Wednesday, February 18, 2009

“ENLISTING THE ENEMY”

2/19/09

The March/April 2009 issue of the Writers’ Journal contains one of my short stories, “Enlisting the Enemy.” The magazine is available in most bookstores; you should pick it up and read the story for three reasons:

--It is, if I can say so myself, a riveting, relevant, and well written story.

--It is loosely based on a true story I heard from some friends involved in Chicago politics.

--In a slightly expanded version, this story became a chapter in my novel of Chicago politics, entitled The Chairman, which, while currently going nowhere, will be published one way or another, hopefully by the end of this year.

If you are interested in, fascinated by, or even appalled by Chicago politics, you will like this story. Even if you have no interest in politics of any kind (Since you’re reading this blog, this probably is not the case.), but are fascinated by human nature and Machiavellian machinations, you will like this story, and the novel, when it finally is published.

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