Homeland Security: the Drunken Fallacies of a Federal Agent
This is the third novel by R.J. Huneke and is currently being shopped around. Here is a taste of the premise:
Homeland Security: the Drunken Fallacies of a Federal Agent is a look at a young Customs agent who finds himself in a precarious situation that threatens to undo his often drunk post-college life. How does the chain-smoking federal agent with a hangover make a vital decision that will alter the course of his life? This ironic, hilarious and thrilling story traverses a cornerstone of the heroin trade through the eyes of a federal agent and his friends. Painful events ensue as a result of becoming irreversibly tied to the most cutthroat drug trade in the world and everyone is threatened. This is not a coming of age story, but instead calls coming of age into question.
As the story opens, Sal White goes from interrogating a drug smuggler, whose prosthetic leg was full of heroin at John F. Kennedy International Airport, to being called onto a much larger drug raid. He has had no sleep and is still feeling the previous night’s twelve pack of Budweiser. Amidst the stacks of white sandbags containing kilos of heroin in an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse, Sal finds evidence that he knows belongs to his roommate. With no suspects apprehended, Sal has to decide whether or not to give up his one of his best friends, or try and hide the incriminating evidence from his suspicious superiors that are right beside him. Does the young agent’s loyalty to the government outweigh the allegiance he has to his oldest friend?
Homeland Security: the Drunken Fallacies of a Federal Agent is a look at a young Customs agent who finds himself in a precarious situation that threatens to undo his often drunk post-college life. How does the chain-smoking federal agent with a hangover make a vital decision that will alter the course of his life? This ironic, hilarious and thrilling story traverses a cornerstone of the heroin trade through the eyes of a federal agent and his friends. Painful events ensue as a result of becoming irreversibly tied to the most cutthroat drug trade in the world and everyone is threatened. This is not a coming of age story, but instead calls coming of age into question.
As the story opens, Sal White goes from interrogating a drug smuggler, whose prosthetic leg was full of heroin at John F. Kennedy International Airport, to being called onto a much larger drug raid. He has had no sleep and is still feeling the previous night’s twelve pack of Budweiser. Amidst the stacks of white sandbags containing kilos of heroin in an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse, Sal finds evidence that he knows belongs to his roommate. With no suspects apprehended, Sal has to decide whether or not to give up his one of his best friends, or try and hide the incriminating evidence from his suspicious superiors that are right beside him. Does the young agent’s loyalty to the government outweigh the allegiance he has to his oldest friend?
