Dead in the Short Run

About the Book

Poor, brilliant, and doggedly determined, Jorge Sanchez is about to achieve his version of the American Dream: a doctorate in economics from Monroe University in Indiana. He works as a research assistant on one of two competing projects whose results will shake the nation’s capital: Does the government’s six- billion-dollar job-training program help poor people find employment? Or is the training too little and too late? Should the program be abolished? Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, anxiously await the projects’ findings.

But when Jorge discovers an hours-old corpse, his life takes an entirely new course, with reverberations extending to the halls of Congress and the White House itself.

About the Author

C.J. Romero has her doctorate in economics and as a federal government employee, examined the effectiveness of programs to reduce the nation’s poverty. Dead in the Short Run is Dr. Romero’s first novel. She and her husband, a former Marine Corps officer, live in Washington, D.C.