When Bay Area biotech wunderkind Iz Whitman discovers his Republican political consultant, Corey Strutsky, dead of a gunshot wound in the office of their political action committee, he becomes an immediate suspect. What the police don’t know is that the PAC was a front.
Determined to help the Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, Iz was secretly using Corey’s racist messaging to scare swing voters in a Central Valley House of Representatives race back into the Democratic fold.
His volatile twin sister, Imogen, also plunges into the race as a key volunteer for the Democratic challenger, which results in very public run-ins with Corey – and in her predicament as another prime suspect in his death.
Rules of Resistance
is a political mystery but also an investigation into the consequences of our political choices in these turbulent times.