Useful Idiots

By Lisa M. Lee

A wealthy family built the American Dream from the ground up. Now, they'll discover that the most dangerous walls are the ones they helped design.

Jose Cruz crossed the desert to earn his citizenship in the Marine Corps. His wife Clarissa meticulously followed every visa rule. Together, they built a construction empire and became the celebrated "good immigrants"-poster children for a new, hardline America. They donate, they advocate, and they win the ultimate prize: a contract to build a network of federal border processing centers.

But when a whistleblower reveals corruption in the project, the system they championed turns on them with surgical precision. Their mother's citizenship is revoked. Their fortune evaporates. Their allies vanish. And the family fractures under the weight of a devastating choice:

FIGHT BACK from the shadows, at the cost of everything they have left.
FALL GRACELESSLY as the state dismantles them, piece by legal piece.
OR SURVIVE IN SILENCE, trading their voice, their dignity, and their souls for the right to remain in a country that no longer wants them.

Useful Idiots is a riveting, morally complex novel that traces the arc of complicity across three devastating possible endings. In the tradition of The Handmaid's Tale and The Plot Against America, this is a story for our moment-a chilling exploration of how good people enable tyranny, and how the walls we build for others can become our own cages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHF5T3YV
• ISBN13: 9798244248654
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"