Gotcha! is a fictitious story based on real events involving 

unethical business practices used by large American 

corporations to enhance the value of their publicly traded 

stock. The resulting collapse of entities such as Enron 

and WorldCom led to severe financial losses to public 

stockholders and the catastrophic loss of pension funds 

and health benefits to thousands of employees. The corporate 

executives responsible for the collapse of these companies, 

however, were rewarded for their mismanagement with “golden 

parachutes.” 

Gotcha! is a story of a group of former managers of the 

bankrupt Whittaker Corporation who conspire to exact revenge 

against the corporate executives responsible for the company’s 

demise. These vigilantes attempt to execute a series of illegal 

scams involving burglary, fraud, and prostitution intended to ruin 

the lives of the executives who destroyed the company. Retribution 

is sought under the principal of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a 

tooth.” 

So, while Gotcha! is a novel, and based upon our joint 

imaginations, every part of it could be, and might be true…