Killer Competition

A struggling TV news operation in Philadelphia finds itself with a freelance photographer who is selling video of crimes he's committing and a news director who just did jail time for manslaughter. But Bud Remmick insists everything's different now. Two years out of prison, Bud has repaired his damaged marriage to Maggie and spent time serving his rural Pennsylvania community as a volunteer EMT until Karen scooped him up and got the general manager at Channel 7 to hire him. Meanwhile, no less than the politically corrupt Governor of Pennsylvania wants to know why Maggie Remmick, the wife of a convicted felon, is hired as a government official. Maggie's job performance is top-notch but has no bearing on the Governor's pool of patronage flunkies. Bud's old "anger aura" starts to well up as forces beyond their control influence both their lives. The good and bad that struggle for dominance over Bud collide in a conflagration of life and death events that play out on live television, shining an uninvited light on the Remmicks. In the end, Bud's search for redemption brings him back to basics, but will it be enough to keep him from going back to jail, this time for good? "This is the second book with Bud Remmick as protagonist, and I think I liked it even more than the first, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The characters evolve and are caught up in, among other murder and mayhem, some political shenanigans that reflect some current darkness in our real world politics."--Kim, Amazon Reader