King Of The Jungle
A journalist tired of battling a corrupt White House gets pulled into his billionaire best friend's jungle utopia — right as a communist regime next door decides to take it by force.
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King of the Jungle is a bitingly satirical, rollicking action/adventure/romance story ripped from the headlines readers of modern political fiction won't want to miss.
Mike Holman, an independent podcaster and web publisher, is growing weary of the struggle to operate an honest news organ amid the shadow of corporate and Big Tech manipulation — not to mention the corrupt and malign influence of the Joe Deadhorse administration. When he's contacted by his old college roommate, Pierce Polk, the iconic billionaire CEO of Sentinel Holdings, with a renewed offer of partnership and capital, Holman finally relents...in part. He agrees to write an autobiography of Polk and do public-relations consulting for him.
That leads Holman to a journey of discovery, for Polk has quietly built a small city he's calling Liberty Point in the middle of the Guyanese jungle — a Shangri-La tucked away from the world.
Or so Polk thinks. Because the corrupt communist Madiera regime in next-door Venezuela has designs on the bountiful, mineral-rich jungle of the Essequibo region where Liberty Point sits, and the Venezuelans are preparing for war to get it.
King of the Jungle takes the reader through an honest, if over-the-top and often infuriating, look at politics both in the U.S. and in Latin America amid the chaos the real world has become. It's a page-turner and a thought-provoker, and you won't want to stop until it's done!
Praise for King of the Jungle
"Scott McKay, over at the American Spectator, is serializing his new novel at spectator.org. It's called King of the Jungle, and I admit that I'm hooked."
— Neal Freeman, National Review
"I keep trying to identify the characters in this barely fictional novel... I can only pray that your work remains fictional. It's chillingly possible."
— reader reaction, The American Spectator
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