But because Dre is African American and has a criminal record in his youthful past, he may be the least likely public face to put before presumptive voters. Making the county’s predominantly white and mostly conservative electorate willing to part with such fertile land shouldn’t require much more than ramping up anti-government, don’t-tread-on-me emotions. His boss offers him what seems to be one last chance for advancement: the opportunity to supervise a ballot initiative that would enable a metals conglomerate to mine gold from a thousand-acre Appalachian rainforest in Carthage County, South Carolina, that local officials refuse to sell. Once an up-and-coming operative for a prestigious K Street political consulting firm, Andre “Dre” Ross now finds himself on thin ice for having gone overboard on a gubernatorial campaign. This dark comedy about dark money confirms one’s worst suspicions about the political process while constantly confounding one’s presumptions about human behavior.
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