A most entertaining book if you have an interest in government and the ludicrous complexity of the bureaucracy that it supports.
It is entertaining as it is a satirical, humorous book written by a congressman about a typical American family and how they get drawn into the "war on terror".
Morris is an unassuming, middle-class American living a quiet placid life in suburban USA. He is a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.
He has a dalliance with a receptionist at one of the companies he visits. In an attempt to hide his misadventure from his wife Rona, he inadvertently gets mixed up with a drug criminal who is under observation from homeland security and at least 2 other government agencies. Each agency doesn't know about the other agencies activities and life quickly becomes very complicated for everyone concerned.
The whole situation gets even more convoluted when Rona feels sorry for a young Arab pool attendant and his friends in Florida and decides she is going to help them with counselling, her profession.
Unfortunately for Morris and Rona, the young Arabs really are terrorists just waiting for their turn at "going to paradise".
The plot thickens and if you read on through many layers of confusion and misinterpretation by all the agencies, eventually you will then find out if Morris and Rona will ever get their old life back.
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