
Price on Their Heads
A Novel of Income Inequality and Mayhem
by Jeff Posey
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Pub Date Nov 04 2014 | Archive Date Jan 31 2015
Description
Warning: This story contains impolite language, graphic violence, a little sex, and is very politically incorrect.
Jackie Key inherits a full scholarship from
a rich man murdered by his brother, and seeks justification by studying the
economic ripple effects of the dissolution of the dead man’s assets. What he
discovers and tries to publish makes him become public enemy number one among
the country’s rich and powerful because Dr. Jackie Key can calculate a true
economic price on their heads.
From Jeff Posey, author of The G.O.D. Journal, comes a contemporary
political thriller that exposes the cruelly tilted playing field of American
economics and politics, and how the government’s response drives Nobel
Prize-winning economist Jackie Key to become the mastermind of a team of
assassins who target his hit list of the “too rich to exist.”
When Jackie Key overhears his parents’ employer
refer to his household staff as “subhuman,” he rushes forward with a kitchen knife
that ultimately frames the cook. His brother, a trained military assassin,
wrests the knife from Jackie and plunges it between the ribs of the 127th-richest
man in America.
Twenty-five years later, Dr. Jackie Key is
prepared to publish a model that calculates an economic price on the heads of
the richest people in the country, the ultimate justification for the murder
his brother committed. Maura Booker, senior correspondent for The New York Times, hounds Jackie into
an interview, and then embeds herself with Jackie as government and private
forces attempt to quash Dr. Jackie Key’s publication and vilify him as an enemy
of the state.
Jimmy, Jackie’s brother who he thought had died decades ago, returns leading a team of trained and motivated assassins. Jackie’s moral world twists and turns as he grapples with the disproportionate response to his life’s work and finds an unexpected chance at love with Maura, who stays by his side and writes books and articles for an increasingly angry public. Under enormous pressure, Jackie transforms himself into an assassin with a code, an icebreaker for change, a standing threat of mayhem against the arrogant rich and powerful if they refuse to change their globally destructive behavior.
A Note From the Publisher
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The author is willing to engage with media and bloggers in writing, by voice, or by video.
Advance Praise
Terry Sunday, an Amazon Top 500 Reviewer, gives 5 of 5 stars and says the story is “a taut, well-written thriller that seems ripped from today’s headlines. With a skillful and conversational style, Mr. Posey segues effortlessly from esoteric discussions of economic policy to action-packed shoot-’em-ups, and everything in between. His characters are well drawn and distinguishable, he conveys a great sense of place in the locations he describes, and he throws in enough plot twists and turns to satisfy the ardent conspiracy theorist. I don’t often say that I couldn’t put a book down, but in this case that’s almost literally true.”
John D. Cofield, an Amazon Top 500 Reviewer, gives 5 of 5 stars and says this: “Jeff Posey’s novel can be truly described as a thriller…. Price On Their Heads confronts its readers with some uncomfortable truths about the state of the American and world economy and does so in an exciting, perpetually page-turning way.” Read the full review on the book's Amazon page.
P.B. Sharp, an Amazon Top 500 Reviewer, gives 4 of 5 stars and says the story has “a pace that will leave you breathless, every hideout a dramatic scene of excitement and mayhem.” Read the full review on the book's Amazon page.
Marketing Plan
Ebook pre-orders are live on Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, and txtr.com.
The paperback version is available now, prior to official release date, on Amazon and CreateSpace.
The first of three Goodreads Giveaways garnered 571 requests and five copies have been mailed to the winner. A second Goodreads Giveaway for 10 copies will be held in November.
At least one BookBub promotion at 99 cents will be scheduled in Q1 2015.
The book is 106,000 words in length. At an average reading speed of 250 words per minute, the book will take just over seven hours to read.
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781499233049 |
PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews

REVIEW: PRICE ON THEIR HEADS
What an exciting, engrossing, thriller! I want to read it again! I'm not sure whether the moral encased here should be: "The Past is never really over" or "Never go public with whatever you know." Professor Jackie Key discovers both these lessons to be true, when his still-unpublished macroeconomics treatise is leaked and incites the Ultra-Wealthy to want him fired, expelled, arrested, even terminated; and the long-lot covert spy."wet-worker" older brother, not above a bit of assassination himself, reappears to rescue Jackie and his journalist-lover.

What a remarkable book, I have never though about economics in that way before and certainly not that so few people control the incomes of most of the worlds' population. A fascinating book which had a noble ending.

What a ride!!! This book was definitively an amazing race, for its characters and for me as a reader! It was different from everything I've read, but in a good way: I'm very happy to have stepped out of my comfort zone a little to read Jeff Posey's novel.
I admit the book lost me a little when Jackie, talking with Maura, went deep in his economic model and theory of richness and whatnots but, after that first sort of interview, the story did get better and better. The author put together a really great set of characters - every one of them quite well developed and realistic - and assembled an even more great (not really) fictional universe where everything you took for granted was in reality something different and way more complicated. Nothing in this book went as I expected, I was always blown away by a character's erratic action - mostly Jimmy's - or an unpredictable set of circumstances. It was mindblowing...and I loved it!
Price on Their Heads kept me on my toes, that's for sure!
At last, I'd like to thank the author for the chance to read his book for free through NetGalley and I hope he appreciates my review
Review's links:
- GR: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1099737338?book_show_action=false
- Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/review/RAYZ9O1BCR8PS
- My Blog: http://justonemoreblogaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2014/11/arc-netgaley-price-on-their-heads-by.html