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The story is a seething pool of oil billionaires, a conniving Cabinet Secretary and the hero, a Rocky-like character who sinks his teeth into the festering body politic. A beautiful industrial spy almost dives into the pool herself but, instead, stands on its shore because the man she was directed to double-cross becomes her love interest.A Georgia billionaire pays an Arab sheik over a billion dollars to slow the flow of oil to America. Even as the transaction takes place the billionaire plots to double-cross him with the help of a strange Hong Kong character whose office floor is scrubbed every night with distilled water. This wealthy obsessive-compulsive keeps a harem of beautiful masseuses but his bigger thrills come when he chats with his friend, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers while watching the well-muscled brutes shower in the locker room.While fiction, the story is jammed with jaw-dropping facts about the world’s oil supplies and a host of illegal laws that squeeze America’s second biggest industry, trucking. The novel is based on true events that made national and international news in the 1970s and 1980s.Underlining the angst that all Americans feel when held hostage by an OPEC fuel shortage are independent truckers who roll up their sleeves and roll into Washington to force Congress to take action about what the hero feels, but cannot prove, is a contrived oil shortage. The hero is suspected of fomenting highway violence through sniping and rock-throwing in order to scare truckers off the road in order to promote a shutdown. He is forced to hide in a “submarine on wheels,” a converted milk tanker that’s a rolling office and convenient scene for romance between himself and the sultry spy.While the hero organizes angry citizens to pick up their torches and pitchforks to march on Washington, he must dodge both the FBI and Department of Transportation sleuths trying to track him with satellites.The Georgia billionaire is a Ross Perot wannabe who uses the shortages to launch his presidential campaign. He is so desperate to win at any cost that the highway violence his hatchet man organized puts his family at risk. In Washington, an investigative reporter doggedly tracks the Secretary of Energy’s skullduggery while the billionaire’s press secretary -- also his mistress -- plans to write a book about him, the subject of which could be more explosive than the highway mayhem or one of the most graphic suicides ever witnessed in public, a distraught farmer who kills himself because his children swam in his backyard pond ruled off-limits by the Environmental Protection Agency. The surprise ending is even more jolting than the violence that terrorized truckers and motorists alike.__________