John David Bethel's Evil Town Reveals The Truth!
Evil Town: Ripped From Today's National Headlines
The fish are dying and the coastal areas smell like a giant toilet. The green sludge from the algae blooms are today killing everything in the water and the trail for this death and stench lead to Florida’s sugar cane fields.
The fertilizer run-off and chemicals from those fields poison the waters of the Everglades and surrounding lakes and rivers. And the reason this is happening is because of the big money that Big Sugar dumps into the campaign chests of the state politicians.
The Five Star political thriller Evil Town tells the dramatic story of how this happens borrowing on events being played out in Congress today. When the murder of a popular Congressman’s wife is swept under the rug, FBI special agent Matt Thurston refuses to go away. He enlists the help of a pair of reporters and begins digging for the truth.
And the truth takes Thurston and crew from the Halls of Congress to the offices of the powerful who run the show and own the state’s politicians. A twisted path leads right into the Oval Office and beyond to past sins of these politicians and their patrons.
The Clewiston News -- the newspaper in the hometown of Big Sugar -- said of Evil Town: “Though the names have been changed to protect the innocent, Bethel’s novel delves into the sordid world of “American Sugar,” its fight to stop the restoration of the Florida Everglades and the unscrupulous — though commonplace — practices it uses to fight the battle. Throw in murder, sex-for-hire scandals and a snaking plot, based almost entirely on dialogue, that keeps readers on their toes and you have the workings of a great political murder mystery.”
