{"product_id":"book-cep8","title":"Big Guns","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes “in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post)\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: “Congress should pass a law making \u003ci\u003eBig Guns \u003c\/i\u003emandatory reading for themselves” (Nelson DeMille).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAsabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review). “An entertaining satire” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), \u003ci\u003eBig Guns\u003c\/i\u003e is “a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system…a rollicking comedic trip” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347254157616,"sku":"10cep8","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347254124848,"sku":"BDcep8","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cep8-cover.jpg?v=1758572023","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cep8","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}