The action in this novel, PFUMP - Partnership Funding Upper Midwest Pipelines - is triggered by three actual, simultaneous-occurring, explosive events; the shocking outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the sudden collapse of North Dakota's oil market, and the Sioux protesting that PFUMP pipeline construction. These three events trigger immediate response problems for the Governor. It seems ISIS (or, most probably, certainly not-ISIS) mercenaries blowing up Oil rigs and other oily things in Williston. Winter blows snow and freezing temperatures. Most Insurance covering these blowing and blowing-up things ain't kicking in as scheduled! How can Governor Rolfes possibly pull enough strings to stop the wealth of his state from flowing down that Missouri River, down toward Texas or someplace? The governor's 86 year old mother has the ability to solve this massive platter of hardship - her weapon is meatloaf with mashed potatoes and scalloped-corn casserole!
