May 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE, MAY 2005:
L.C. Evans’ new novel, Jobless
Recovery, like all good satire, strips the newsworthy butt-naked,
allowing us to see beyond the cellulite and into the guts of the matter.
Exposing the consequences of the trend to eliminate American jobs, Evans
shines a humorous spotlight on some very ugly wrinkles of corporate America.
A morbidly ugly clown, grotesque to look at, but funny as hell.
Dave
Griffin thinks he has it made--beautiful girlfriend, computer programming job,
and all the benefits that come with middle class life in America. Then Dave's
employer callously decides to replace American computer programmers with a
combination of offshore and imported labor in order to increase company profits.
Now Dave is out on the street and can't find even a minimum wage job. But Dave
still believes in the system. All he has to do is bring the problem to the
attention of the media and the people in Washington to get results. But his
agitating only deepens his trouble.
Meanwhile,
Dave's friend Joe Tremaine, a former FBI agent who lost his job after suffering
a devastating head injury, is struggling to pay for his medicine and help his
daughter. Cynical Joe knows better than to trust anyone in Washington or in
corporate America. He embroils Dave in his fraudulent money-making schemes, and
when Joe decides to educate the powerful senator who has been the driving factor
in eliminating American jobs, his plan goes terribly wrong. Dave is the only one
who can help, but helping will force him to choose who and what he cares for.
Can an unemployed computer jockey manage to keep Joe-and himself--out of jail?
Or will the oddly-shaped bundle in the back of Joe's truck spell tragedy for
both of them?
Jobless
Recovery is a humorous, yet gripping satirical account of the desperation of
people betrayed by their own country. It illumines greed and nobility, the
fundamental choice between self and selflessness that makes us human.
About
the author:
L. C. Evans currently lives in the United States.
Jobless
Recovery
Author:
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