The Frankenstein Candidate by Vinay Kolhatkar

Author:Vinay Kolhatkar [Kolhatkar, Vinay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Political, Suspense
ISBN: 9781463796716
Google: 6jeitgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1463796714
Barnesnoble: 1463796714
Goodreads: 14402630
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

Altogether, three thousand people died, and scores of others were injured in the most horrific, senseless, and purposeless day of rioting in American history.

President Young called for an urgent session of Congress to consider imposition of martial law. The session was scheduled for Tuesday morning but erupted into an almost violent confrontation between Democrats and Republicans, each accusing the other of starting the riots. The bill could not be passed.

Over the week, though, things became quieter. Frank Stein went back to his campaign office on Wednesday. He noticed that the door handle had been tampered with and the door was ajar. Clearly, someone had entered the office. He did not realize the full extent of the vandalism till he was inside. Papers were strewn everywhere. The tables and chairs were thrown all over the place. Frank noticed that the windows had been shattered, and some of the glass from the windows had spilled inside. Someone had written on the wall with red paint “Fuck off Frankenstein and take your rich buddies with you.” He noticed the neat handwriting and the correct spelling; it did not belong to a street thug. He did not keep cash in the office. No documents were missing. But the hard drives of the three computers were gone.

The drawers had been emptied out—his USBs were gone too. Whoever did this knew him or at least of him; this was no robbery, it was a calculated and violent assault on his campaign. He always had one USB that he kept with him or at his home, but he had never preserved the hate e-mail he received on his main computer. Over the months, there had been at least six hundred hate letters and e-mails, maybe eight hundred—too many for the police to follow up on. Oh, the police. Yes, that’s right, he needed to make at least two calls—he called 911 and then he called Mike Rodrigo, the toughest guy he knew.

The news of Casey Rogers’ poisoning had changed the rules. Rumors were circulating that Casey was terminally ill. Frank would have loved to visit him in hospital, to wish him well even though he vehemently disagreed with most of what Casey said except the part that seemed to have made him an assassination target. But Casey’s whereabouts were a tightly guarded secret, and rightly so, Frank thought.

Mike Rodrigo was a former marine. He headed up a small private security firm that specialized in protecting celebrities and political targets. As a legitimate presidential candidate, Frank had requested federal protection, but it had neither been denied nor agreed to—the papers were stuck somewhere in the state machinery, and after Black Monday and the attack on his own office, Frank could wait no longer. In any event, federal rules only allowed Secret Service protection for presidential candidates in the last 120 days leading up to the election.

To say Mike Rodrigo was a tough guy was an understatement. A veteran of the Iraq offensive and the Northern Pakistan incursion, he

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