Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand

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Bangkok Book House, Mar 9, 2017 - Fiction - 337 pages
This novel is based upon the theory of Participatory democracy as envisioned by Professor Harlan Watt. His theory was so provocative and threatening to the American elite, Professor Harlan was murdered by his own government for being a national security risk. A close friend, novelist Jake Jacobs, promised his widow that he would take up the banner and promote Harlan's theory of Participatory democracy in his novels. The President, the CIA and IMF have consolidated their resources in an attempt to stop the publication of Jake's novel. When his publisher, Mr. Naak, suffered the loss of his beloved nephews who were attempting to establish a true democracy in Thailand; he promised his only remaining nephew that he would never rest until democracy was firmly established in 'The Land of Smiles.' Thailand has never been colonized by anyone...and won't start now! With the help of the Prime Minister of Thailand, former Supreme Court justice Theodore Marsh, private detective Rick Olson, the negative forces of American influence would be confronted at every turn. But if Jake Jacob's novel gets published, American style democracy as it exists today under the plutocracy would be in jeopardy. Thailand and America are on a collision course of their own making. Sides are chosen and played out to their final conclusion: a dynamic duel of major proportions right to the bitter end.

About the author (2017)

F. Scott Sinclair is retired and loves writing novels. He’s a graduate of the University of Washington where he majored in psychology. He is a Thai Vietnam veteran (an American stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War), who was told in his special security instructions that he was “expendable.” In other words, whether he lived or died was of no concern to his government. His job was to detect and report; thereafter, he was on his own. And now, in F. Scott’s final years, he has returned to the place he was forsaken by his own government. Yes, to the place where he was told that his life was meaningless: expendable, a devastating word for anyone to endure. But defending the lives of the warmest and most loving people in the world, the Thai people, wasn’t meaningless. If he’d lost his life, the sacrifice would have been worth it. Freedom and liberty are difficult things to secure in this world: even in America. May God bless Thailand…!

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