Did I Bash Real Politicians in “The Politician’s Pawn?” You Bet I Did!

I stated before that no nurses were harmed in the making of this book.

I can’t say the same thing about politicians. I never wanted to.

I now remember that I started writing “The Politican’s Pawn” after the 2012 presidential elections, when I was disgusted with everyone in D.C.: Democrats, Republicans, wishy-washy in-betweeners… Everyone. So as soon as I figured out my manuscript-in-the-making was going to be a political thriller, I started choosing real-life politicians to throw under the creative bus, as it were.

And gosh, but is there a wide pool of un-American egomaniacs in Congress to choose from.

Throughout the series, I pick on very real public figures, starting with the barely fictional Senator Aaron Greyble, Kayla’s kidnapper. While his name is changed to protect the innocent (me) from getting sued or something – and while the actual politician in question never ordered anyone abducted and killed (to my knowledge at least) – I stared at pictures of the real sleazebag when I was describing the fake one in my book.

Even so, I doubt anyone would know him. He’s on the obscure side Congressionally speaking.

Not so much with some of the other jerks I mention, both Republican and Democrat. One in particular is so blatantly obvious that I doubt anyone wouldn’t know her.

And if any of my readers have a good opinion of said person…? Well, I’m not going to apologize. She’s horrid. Besides, I trash her direct counterpart/opposition in Book 3.

He irritates me too.

Here’s the thing… These stories are anti-socialist, anti-crony capitalist and anti-establishment. But that’s truly about the end of their political preaching, as far as I intended at least. Despite my deep-seated disdain for almost all of D.C., I didn’t want to offend any reasonable constituents outside of it… including a dear friend of mine who has stated before that she’s a socialist.

She loved the books, by the way, even asking me to write a fourth one.

(Which isn’t happening. Just for the record.)

So with that all said, I sincerely hope I didn’t offend my readers with “The Politician’s Pawn” or its two sequels. Except, of course, if one of my readers served as inspiration for this series.

In which case, consider this payback. We’re not even close to being even.