The Last Election

A Novel of Politics

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Pub Date 01 Sep 2014 | Archive Date 14 Nov 2014

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An election saved his life. Will a campaign now destroy it?


John Quincy Barnes doesn’t like politics.


He doesn’t like what candidates have to do to get elected. Once they get elected, he doesn’t much care for what they have to do to get anything done.


A relentless idealist, he tolerates the sexting scandals, falsified resumes and corruption trials each election cycle because knows the most important thing in the world is the outcome of an election.


He’s living proof of it.


The result of a single election altered his destiny—and saved his life.


While he routinely takes time away from his law practice at Connecticut’s most prestigious firm to participate in the political process as a strategist and fundraiser, he’s never even considered putting his name on a ballot until asked to do so by his mentor and father figure, Aidan Coyle. Aidan, Connecticut’s most influential party boss, wants Quinn to primary four-term Senator Saul Berg to address the state’s growing crisis over income inequality.


The timing of Aidan’s plea could not be worse. At work, Quinn has just undertaken the controversial pro-bono representation of the mother of a Latino teen shot in nearby East Haven. At home, he’s struggling mightily in his marriage to his wife, Brooke, while his daughter, Eliza, and two sons, Pierce and Ben, grapple with the unique challenges of growing up multi-racial.


Quinn is forced to decide whether the call to meet his destiny demands that he risk everything to take on the challenge of a lifetime. And put his idealism up against the monstrous beast that is modern American politics.

An election saved his life. Will a campaign now destroy it?


John Quincy Barnes doesn’t like politics.


He doesn’t like what candidates have to do to get elected. Once they get elected, he doesn’t much...


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Author Bio:

Gary Collins serves as the President of the Council for a Livable World (www.clw.org), the nation’s largest political action committee devoted to advancing a progressive agenda on national security and nuclear disarmament issues. In 2013, he was appointed by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy to Chair the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the oldest governmental civil rights agency in the country.Gary was formerly a candidate for US Congress from Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional district. He’s previously served as a strategist and senior advisor to several candidates for statewide office in Connecticut, including Ned Lamont for US Senate in 2006 and Lamont for Governor in 2010.

A lawyer by training, Gary formerly served as an executive at a fortune 10 company. Prior to that, Gary was a partner at the oldest firm in Connecticut, where his practice focused on government investigations. His partnership was preceded by his service as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C. during the Clinton administration where he was twice awarded with the Department of Justice’s Victim of Crime Award and the recipient of the U.S. Attorney’s Special Achievement Award. Gary taught government investigations at the University of Connecticut, School of Law from 2004-12. He’s the co-author of Warning the Witness: A Guide to Internal Investigations.

A noted author and commentator, Gary sits on the board of several non-profit organizations and is the founder of the Collins Foundation, Inc. (http://www.the-collins-foundation.org/)

Gary received his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1991 and graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1988 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.



He lives in Portland, Connecticut with his wife, Amy Salvin-Collins and their two sons, Grant and Harrison and is a helluva youth basketball and Little League coach.

Author Bio:

Gary Collins serves as the President of the Council for a Livable World (www.clw.org), the nation’s largest political action committee devoted to advancing a progressive agenda on national...

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