Codename: Eclectics

“Well, pull out some firepower and get his ass back here!” The Secretary of State screams.
A State Department employee carrying top secret documents has been kidnapped — even
though he was guarded by the Lincoln bedroom janitor — and now he’s being held by nudists
and members of the Church of the Holy Tryst.
The Secretary of State knows the documents must be retrieved at any cost, but he doesn’t trust
any of the government security agencies. So he turns to his pot-smoking aide and a band of
misfit citizens who are pledged to save the country and get the job done.
As time is running out, the cross-country race to save America gets even weirder. Following their
leader Paulie, the disc jockeys, a one-eyed demolition expert, a sex-starved Russian woman,
and the others follow clues that lead them right to the nation’s capital.
Along the way, they are chased by cartels and attacked by hillbillies and hitmen. As the story
unfolds, burning questions spawn:

• Can they find the kidnapped janitor and courier and save America? • Does Paulie’s mother-in-
law really believe that Frank Sinatra has reincarnated as a lapdog? • Why does the owner of

Wanda’s School of Passionate Discipline and Leather Craft Emporium have a direct line to the
White House? • Who is the dead guy in the back seat, and why do they want him delivered to
Washington? • And who the hell is Voice?
Get the answers as you find out what really goes on behind the political scenes in America—
while you laugh, shake your head, and cheer on the underdogs.
CODENAME: ECLECTICS

Author Bio
Jack Straw writes sarcastically hilarious stories—both fiction and nonfiction (as if there’s a
difference in today’s world)—with two simple goals in mind: truth and humor. It’s that simple.
After living life on all sides of the track (and sometimes on the track with the train getting
precariously close), he has become a diehard student in the school of bizarre human behavior.
The lesson he’s learned is: real is real, and it doesn’t have to be boring.
He currently lives in the Midwest with his wife, two cats, and one dog—with Ray Wylie Hubbard
and Bonnie Raitt singing in the background.