Digging the Golden Fungus: The SwiftPad Insurgency

The SwiftPad Insurgency , the second book in the SwiftPad trilogy, follows the founders and original crew of the Portland-based social media application SwiftPad. Nate Schuette, who wrote a sensational novel thirty years earlier (see Barckmann's novel Farewell the Dragon ), shows up in Portland with Paula Flayer, his promiscuous seventy-five-year-old girlfriend who has not physically aged since her late twenties. But Ben Cadez, former Nixon operative and Paula's one-time lover, also wields the power of the youth-preserving Golden Fungus and is now a Republican candidate for President. They are all in the crosshairs of a deranged and corrupt President, and Portland must decide whether to co-opt or fight.

Lee Barckmann lives in the Portland Oregon area. In the mid 80's he went to China to teach English, returning three years later with his wife Mary and son Zach. Has written two other novels.