My
guest today Scott R. Kramer author of False Pretenses talks about why he
decided to write a political thriller and what was his inspiration.Scott Kramer
is a former investment adviser and now runs a manufacturing company. He grew up
in New Jersey and has a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree, both in finance.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. False
Pretenses
is his debut political thriller novel.
Scott: My inspiration to write "False
Pretenses" was the election of George W. Bush, the Iraq war and the
prosecution of it by the George W. Bush administration.
The
election of George W. Bush in 2000 was mired in controversy, and may or may not
have been won fairly. I felt that a story about a stolen election would be an
interesting one.
Shortly
after Bush took office, America was attacked on
September 11th,
and we went to war with Iraq. As time went on, it became clear that the war was
sold to the public under false pretenses. We were told that the Iraqi's had
weapons of mass destruction. They didn't. We were told that Saddam Hussein was
a threat to the U.S. He wasn't. We were told that the war wasn't about oil. It
turns out that it probably was.
The
Bush family had very close, long standing, business and personal ties to the
Saudi royal family. Even though fifteen of the nineteen September
11th hijackers
were Saudi nationals, the Bush administration attacked Iraq because they were
an easy target. Saudi Arabia, with their large reserves of oil, and close
family ties to the Bush's would have been problematic.
Once
the war was going, it also became clear that Halliburton, Vice President Dick
Cheney's former company, was getting no-bid contracts, enriching the Vice
President and his friends. With the Bush family history in the oil business, it
was also reasonably clear who the war would benefit.
As I
learned more about what was going on, and became more disheartened by what I
saw as political corruption, I decided to write the book, both as an escape for
me, and to provoke thought in a public that seems to have accepted corrupt politicians
as the norm.
About False
Pretenses
A
stolen election. Domestic terrorism. Extortion. Once in power, and consumed by
greed, Pete Reeves will stop at nothing to have more of both. It's a non-stop
race around the world to prevent the President from going to war to further his
own ambitions. Politics takes one unexpected turn after another in "False
Pretenses," the new political thriller by Scott Kramer.
About Scott R.
Kramer
Scott
Kramer is a former investment adviser and now runs a manufacturing company. He
grew up in New Jersey and has a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree, both in
finance. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. False
Pretenses
is his debut political thriller novel.
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