Mr Paul H Davis

The Dropouts Mr Paul H Davis

Publisher Marketing: America died, and nobody cared. The collapse of the United States provided one more example of misfits, miscreants and malcontents becoming the shapers of world-changing events. The righteous and upright didn't save the day; salvation came from a drug-dealing ex-stockbroker on the lam after jumping parole from his statutory rape prison term and his collaboration with a woman who stole her husband's cash, abandoned her children and became a prostitute. They're the ones we can thank for the peaceful, stable, post-democratic world we enjoy today. The meta-story blends a serialized first-person narrative with short stories exploring related complexities when, for example ... A U. S. senator uses his teenage interns as sex toys, Preteen sisters confront rogue Secret Service agents preparing to steal a trainload of gold, A boy dies in the arms of his father, his body pierced by a bullet that missed his armor, A man comes to life in the arms of his lover, his heart pierced by a woman who saw through his lies, A dowager throws the markets into mayhem when she sells everything and buys gold to get the attention of a cute, young broker in the firm handling her multibillion-dollar fortune, Paramilitary skinheads loot a liquor store but get caught by Russian immigrant farmers who amputate their thumbs and throw them to the pigs (the thumbs, not the thugs), A woman on Social Security unintentionally creates a new silver-based currency as a response to hyperinflation ravaging the income from her under-the-table business, and A mafia don torches a historic mansion to burn some hit-men to death and avenge the rape of his daughter. The story is like a hologram: looking at it from different angles produces different views of what it is. Some are perhaps yet to be discovered.