Worstville: a community crime

By Ford Preston Weber

Welcome to Worstville, the apt nickname for Westville, a struggling city where hopes and dreams have been on an outbound train for a generation. As decades elapsed, Westville steadily devolved into Worstville - a sea of generic dullness and vacancy where neighborhood character has been sacrificed for the benefit of political expediency and shoddy development.

Worstville is a novel depicting an effort to revitalize Westville and create a vibrant community where people flourish. Frank Clark, the naively idealistic City employee driven by his passion to reverse his hometown's decline, slowly comprehends the grim reality that spawned Worstville. Red Paley, the manipulative, erratic Mayor blinded by his unbridled political ambition and desperately seeking to become Governor learns that even he isn't immune to Westville's systemic mendacity. Amidst this conflict Roderick Campbell, the brilliant Chief of Staff, gets caught between Frank's community passion and the Mayor's political ambition and must resolve his conflicting values.

Worstville is the result of a community crime committed over several decades by various power brokers who are aided in their crime by countless "innocent" conspirators including gutless political and civic leaders, and exploitative economic opportunists - all cannibalizing the community they claim to love and abetted by an apathetic and disengaged electorate. However, principled leadership and an engaged citizenry can overcome them.

Is the light at the end of Westville's journey a beacon of promise or an on-coming train? Read Worstville to find out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960007911
• ISBN13: 9780960007912
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Ford Weber
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"