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Kilowatt
$16.95
Set during the final years of the Bush administration, Kilowatt tells the story of Reb Morgan and Alice Carpenter, journalists from a small community radio station in the mountains of northern California, who embark upon a perilous journey into the very heart of corporate America. EnerTex, a Texas-based energy company with close ties to the White House, claims to have discovered a revolutionary process for generating electricity that is both environmentally “clean” and affordable. But they refuse to reveal the details of this new technology under the pretense that to do so would threaten national security.
“Kilowatt looks the looming electrical energy crisis in the eye and dowsn’t blink. Neither will you once you read this complelling book. McHugh has spun an inspiring and entertaining tale about how ordinary working people can stand up to powerful corporate interests.”
~Jim Hightower, Nationally syndicated radio commentator and author of Thieves in High Places
“Hurray for muckrakers! Kilowatt is a parable and cautionary tale about the nature of power for all of us who are still looking for the heart of America.”
~Bill Harley, Grammy Award-winning storyteller, playwrite, and songwriter
Set during the final years of the Bush administration, Kilowatt tells the story of Reb Morgan and Alice Carpenter, journalists from a small community radio station in the mountains of northern California, who embark upon a perilous journey into the very heart of corporate America. EnerTex, a Texas-based energy company with close ties to the White House, claims to have discovered a revolutionary process for generating electricity that is both environmentally “clean” and affordable. But they refuse to reveal the details of this new technology under the pretense that to do so would threaten national security. Has EnerTex successfully found a way to address the world’s pressing energy needs and avoid global warming? Or have they, instead, opened a veritable Pandora’s box that could endanger the future beyond imagining? As Reb and Alice pursue their investigation, they encounter a brilliant but troubled physicist, a former colonel with Soviet Special Forces, a Texas oil man, an ambitious “deal originator,” a populist radio commentator, a high-level GOP “fixer,” the director of an energy watchdog group, a ruthless gang of Russian mobsters, and Avery Jordan Axton, the enigmatic president and CEO of EnerTex.
”Kilowatt is a great book, well written, and a real page-turner. McHugh has crafted a 21st century wersion of “Woodstein meets The China Syndrome,” only this time the unlikely heroes are from small public radio doing show-leather reporting and in battle with some truly nasty corporate villains.”
~ Jeffrey A. Dvorkin director, Committee of Concerned Journalists and former head of news for National Public Radio
“This book is great, easy reading, being rather difficult to put down. Once I entered. into the depth of the pages, I was hooked. Kilowatt will take your mind off whatever you are stressed over right now, yet it will also cause you to pause and think…is this for real?…it could be. Who’s going to tell you if it is or is not real other that Joe McHugh and people like him? Stimulate your mind: buy and read this book.”
~ Kristen F. Amazon.com reader
