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Synopsis of The Best President Money Can Buy

The Best President Money Can Buy is a work of political commercial fiction, targeted for release prior to the 2024 Presidential election. Based partially upon fact, the book begins with the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Roosevelt in the 1930s. Using this historic event as a starting point it delves into the development of the US electric power grid from coal to todays various forms of renewable energy. With this background the story develops as seen through the eyes of its main character Mr. Jamie Preston. Preston with the help of his mentor, JW Dillon, who is a rich corporate coal mogul takes Jamie Preston under his wing to repay an old debt owed to Jamies father, who was a boyhood best friend of Dillon.

Jamies father saved Dillons life during a coal mine cave-in when they were both young hard hat miners. The injures Dillon suffered forced him to leave his job as a hard hat coalminer to pursue other forms of work. As Dillons fortunes improve, he repays the debt to Jamies father by taking Jamie out of the mines, educating him and eventually raising him from the ranks of a poor Eastern Kentucky coal miner to the second highest executive position in the company founded by Dillon.

As the story unfolds, the book uses the current decrepit state of the aging US power grid and its vulnerability to Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons as the backdrop to develop the story. The current political debate over conventional sources of power versus renewables, especially EMP vulnerable solar systems adds to this debate.

As the majority of solar panels are manufactured in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) (a true fact). The plot develops with a PRC strategy to expand their market for solar power in the United States knowing that reliance on solar power and to a lesser degree wind generate power coupled with the current antiquated US electric grid would pave the way for PRC economic and military dominance as the United States could not retaliate short of nuclear war.[1]

Jamie Prestons fiancé, who is an investigative report, discovers PRCs nefarious and surreptitious attempts to dominate the United States by threating to neutralize the US electric grid using Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons.

Led by Preston, along with his supporting characters, they launch a counter renewable energy project not susceptible to EMP attack (also true). Along the way Prestons life is threatened as are the lives of those closest to him to include the life of his fiancé, and his co-workers. Their struggle to persevere against the odds stacked against them as posed by PRC clandestine operatives, greedy unscrupulous US politicians who are bought off by the PRC, as well as various attempts on their lives comprise the sub-plots. These sub-plots with real world coal mining, renewable energy and weapon system vignettes woven into them makes this not only an exciting read but an interesting and informative read as well.

[1] An unfortunate and real possibility, which as a retired regular US Army officer, I can attest to from open-source documentation.

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The Best President Money Can Buy is 316 page geopolitical novel based upon fact. It seeks to educate the reader to the threats posed by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in a format that entertains; using history, suspense, romance, murder, big business, strong professional women, and corrupt politicians as the informative vehicle.

The story begins in the poor Appalachian mining region of Eastern Kentucky using coal mining and the associated FDR New Deal electrification of the Tennessee Valley as the start point. The story evolves to the present day with the competing issues of an aging US power grid and the need for state of the art uninterruptible renewable sources of electric power. Complicating this problem is the future of Kentucky coal and the current vulnerability of existing renewable energy systems to direct interdiction by countries hostile to the United States. Leading this list of hostile countries is the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) who have developed an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon targeted to interdict exposed US renewable energy facilities (A true fact by the way).

The thriller aspect of the story develops as a PRC strategy to expand their current large US market for solar power panels (also a true fact), since solar power is especially vulnerable to EMP weapons. The PRC rightly concludes that given the vulnerability of the US power grid if they dominate the solar panel market they would have a means to subjugate the US to their will.

The main protagonists in this story are Mr. Jamie Preston, a wealthy industrialist whose Lexington, Kentucky based company has developed an alternative renewable power source that is protected against EMP attack (a system like this does exist), and his fiancé, Ms. Jade Riley, an investigative reporter. The relationship between Preston and Riley parallels the development of the main plot. This relationship begins as an adversarial one that gradually develops into a love affair as together they discover PRCs intentions.

The thriller aspect of the story evolves as PRC operatives threaten Jamies life and the lives of those closest to him. Their struggle to persevere against the odds, to include clandestine PRC operatives, a female assassin and unscrupulous US politicians doing business with the PRC comprise the sub-plots

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