Currents of Power: A Modern Political Novel is a behind-the-scenes glimpse at a year-long political campaign for a statewide office in a major industrial state. We are introduced to eight very different - and very human - candidates who leap into the statewide arena. We share their various paths to power, their motivations, schemes and passions. The reader is given a front-row seat to the drama of a of a modern campaign: the grand strategies, brutal revelations and nuts-and-bolts techniques of state-of-the-art politics. The book is a poignant love story and droll commentary of 21st Century life. Lyrical and expressionistic, Currents of Power: A Modern Political Novel describes the kaleidoscope of unique characters and perfect moments that swirl through a statewide race. The author likens ever shifting political forces to the complex currents flowing in rivers. After reading Currents of Power: A Modern Political Novel, the reader will never view politics - or rivers - in the same light.