Politics of Deception

By Ben Turner

Politics of Deception is a political thriller about a lawyer named Damon Carter, who is the son of the wealthy congressman, Marshall Carter. Throughout Damon's life, Marshall has criticized everything Damon has done, from being a lawyer to meeting and dating his girlfriend, Eve. Damon eventually has enough and by using his father's secretary, Jessica, plots to kill his father and eventually run for his seat to add insult to injury.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ben Turner
• Release date: Sep 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370613847

Ben Turner

I am a currently a student attending Full Sail University for my Bachelor's in Creative Writing for Entertainment. I grew up in Crossville, Tennessee. From an early age, I was always drawing and doing all sorts of artsy stuff. When I got to high school, my talent for writing kicked in with a short anthology of stories about animals. The more I wrote, the more I realized it was what I was meant to do. I fell in love with it and never plan to stop.

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Politics of Deception

By Ben Turner

Politics of Deception

Published by Ben Turner at Smashwords

Copyright 2016 Ben Turner

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Table of Contents

Title Page 1

Copyright page 2

Table of Contents 3

Politics of Deception 4

About the Author 23

Politics of Deception Act II Sample 24

Politics of Deception

December 10, 2015

Damon sat on the first row of uncomfortable steel chairs next to his grieving mother, Diana, and his beautiful soon to be wife, Eve. The preacher quoted Scripture from his Bible. He quoted something from Second Corinthians about being away from our bodies and our ultimate goal to be to please The Lord. Damon wasn’t much into religion. He had gone to church a few times but his family was usually too busy dealing with his father’s line of work. His father, Marshall Carter, was a United States Congressman, a Representative, representing the state of South Carolina. His father had served two-terms to date. He was well received and the top congressman of his state. He was also one of the top in the entire Republican Party. He had done great work for the Republicans. The next election was coming at the end of the year and he would have got re-elected if he had made it. However, he lay cold, dead, and lifeless in a wooden casket, about to lowered into the cold, dark earth, his body, left to rot away and his soul to go to wherever souls go. His wife, despite his wrong doings, sat sobbing her eyes out, blowing her nose with her handkerchief every few minutes. His son, Damon Carter, seated next to his mother, not looking