Polo ... Game Changer

Polo ... Game Changer is the third book in a trilogy of political novels by Chase Baldewyn. Written before Trump’s campaign and election, the trilogy provides insight to how Donald Trump would be elected. The trilogy is based on ethnographic research on billionaire families in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The novel’s protagonist, Rolf Lambert, a billionaire plutocrat like Trump, attempts to control the media to promote his revised business using polo while building a hidden power base to privatize government and create a globalocracy. Lambert manipulates journalist, Alicia Woodson, to promote his business, but at story’s end Woodson is faced with the dilemma to either expose the truth or protect Lambert by lying, similar to dilemmas potentially faced by Trump’s staff. Lambert’s conflict with other billionaires leads to a polo game matching patriotism and fair play against Lambert’s self-serving business interests and his desire to win at all costs using a game changing gimmick.