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…