The global war on Morris
By: Steve Israel
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition January 2015.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781476772233
Subjects: Roman; Conspiracy theories; Supercomputers; Terrorism; Amerikanisches Englisch; Satire; Fiction
Description: A witty political satire ripped from the headlines and written by Congressman Steve Israel, who's met the characters, heard the conversations, and seen the plot twists firsthand. Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn't enjoy the news; he doesn't like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants the world to leave him alone. Morris does not make waves. But one day Morris is seduced by a lonely, lovesick receptionist at one of the doctors' offices along his sales route, and in a moment of weakness charges a non-business expense to his company credit card. No big deal, you might think. Easy mistake. But the government's top-secret surveillance program, anchored by a giant, complex supercomputer known as NICK, thinks differently. Eventually NICK begins to thread together the largely disparate and tenuously connected strands of Morris's life.