Winter Rules, A Novel by Bob Schaefer

My good friend, Bob Schaefer, just sent me his novel and asked me to review it. Bottom line? I told him to change the cover.

WINTER RULES is not an insipid sports story. It is a story about a United States ravaged by monetary inflation, lawlessness, poverty and starry-eyed politicians who preach wealth equity and fairness, a United States ruled by self-righteous academics and tyrannical bureaucrats. Harry Sedlacek is one of these government bureaucrats who just happens to love golf.

When Harry is fired for running his federal agency the same way he plays golf (bending the rules), he learns what life is like on the outside of government looking in. He begins to wonder who are the real bad guys in this world. Desperate fathers who defy the law by bartering on the black market to feed their families? Or the "patriotic" agents of the IRS who ruthlessly pursue and prosecute these barterers? Who are the real good guys? The selfless bureaucrats who scheme to make a central bank digital currency the law of the land, thinking it will solve all of the country’s economic ills? Or selfish black-market operators who believe in a radical new philosophy which is spreading across the world like wildfire, the philosophy that love is barter and, when it is not, love is war?

Harry Sedlacek may no longer be a bureaucrat, but neither is he a philosopher or an economist. He is just a free-thinking, ordinary American who must reason out answers to these questions to the best of his ability because his life and the life of the woman he loves depend on it.

WINTER RULES is a novel for our time. Finally, someone other than Ayn Rand created a novel with philosophical meat on its bones. To be honest, I couldn’t put my friend’s book down. 

But seriously, Bob, change the cover!

WINTER RULES, A Novel is available now on Amazon at the link below:

Amazon.com: Winter Rules: A Novel: 9798218502638: Schaefer, Bob: Books

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