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Ivan Goldman envisions a riotous near future in which the Blue States
have seceded and formed their own union following a disastrous US
invasion of Denmark, now deemed the central front in the war on terror.
It's one of several conflicts being waged by a zealous Red Zone
government in Washington that reportedly dispatches press gangs to fill
military ranks while its citizens flee to Mexico seeking employment as
domestics and busboys. Tossed into this maelstrom is ghost writer
Delmore LeCorte, who becomes romantically entangled with both the Red
Zone president and her more astute sister. Learning secrets he'd rather
not know, LeCorte is pursued by a deranged vice president who
reportedly rules his domain from a lair deep beneath the Rockies and a
ruthless Blue Zone senator who's the love child of a famously randy
Democratic ex-President. It's left to the reader to decide whether Exit
Blue is inventive political satire or a prescient look at more divisive
times ahead. Reviews "Ivan Goldman's Exit Blue is an entertaining book that satirizes government,
politicians, business, and to some extent the ordinary citizen. Some of the
situations presented and the thought processes revealed are probably
uncomfortably closer to the truth than we would like to admit.
Recommended."
— Douglas McWilliams, Sacramento Book Review
"Exit Blue is a humorous and sometimes
frightening look at what America could become."
— The Midwest Book Review
Author Bio
A Fulbright Scholar and New York Times-best-selling writer, Chicago
native Ivan G. Goldman is the author of three novels and a columnist
for The Ring magazine. His work has also appeared in Columbia
Journalism Review, Utne Reader, The Nation, Rolling Stone, The New York
Times, The Washington Post, and other journals. He and his wife live in
southern California. Email him at ivangoldman@yahoo.com
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