Who do they call? Why, Andre Ross, of course. Thar's gold in them thar hills, and you'd better believe some mining company wants to rape the land and screw the local residents to get at it. Welcome to Carthage, South Carolina - a town that consists of Republicans, and independents who split from that party because they believe Republicans aren't conservative enough. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre’s increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the last remnants of his own humanity and the very soul of Carthage County.Ī piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man's unraveling, THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE may very well be the political novel of our times.įifteen minutes he's been in Carthage, and he already hates this place. Under Dre's cynical direction, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. Fitz's well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan on his "team." A local is needed as a strawman to collect signatures, and Dre hires blue-collar couple, oafish Tyler Lee and his pious wife Chalene, to act as the initiative's public face.
The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting in favor of the sale of pristine public land to the highest bidder.ĭre arrives in God-fearing, flag-waving Carthage County, an area America's New Economy has left behind, with only Mrs.
Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and shepherded his career, is exiling him to the boondocks of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. Despite being a successful African-American political consultant, his aggressive tactics have tarnished his firm's reputation.
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