1 Week

About the Book

A Gumpish tale, minus the box of chocolates, 1 Week features an ensemble cast of characters touting political, economic and historical issues in a fresh light. This family of billionaire duck hunters delivers an arsenal of penetrating ideas guaranteed to revive discussions with family and friends at the dinner table. Come navigate the field of decoys in the plot. This just might be your cup of life changing elixir.

As the stalwart brother who stayed home to tend to the family’s broadcasting business, Hank Montague shoulders the full responsibility for keeping fortune and family together under challenging circumstances. Plagued by issues with his prodigal brother and the business, Hank Montague escapes into the passions of two women in his life. One lady he chose, while the other was chosen for him; however, this bed of roses is overgrown with thorns. Frustrated with Hank, the ladies develop competing schemes for restoring the five trillion dollars Americans lost in the 2008 recession.

When an heir disappears, two infamous evangelists are retained for their detective prowess. These gentlemen nudge the plot along with an artful retelling of history. They’ll reveal unconventional applications for ordinary household appliances and reinvent fire while uncovering a plot plaguing America’s youth.

The plot is a minefield of decoys like the street-smart New York detective determined to cut himself a fat slice of the family treasure. Toss in a savvy uncle with quiet charm and an eye for the ladies, and Hank has his hands full.

Hank is the heir to billions, but he is the unprepared heir to an insightful treasure that towers over the family fortune. Cashing in means having to navigate a foggy bog of submerged decoys that lack the innocence of Gump’s perennial box of chocolates.

About the Author

In 1993, a friend stacked $250,000 on Dan’s desk and dared him to open another restaurant. However 90 days later, Dan purchased a $500,000 restaurant with funding he procured from a different investor. He recalls how desperately he needed the $250,000 challenge.

Hank Montague, the protagonist in “1 Week,” is modeled after that experience of being provoked to action. Two characters in 1 Week pick up the challenge of recouping the five to eight trillion dollars Americans lost in the 2008 recession.

In recent years Dan has worked as a union teamster constructing power plants and pipelines. He finds that God often uses those daily interactions with up to 4000 men to usher in that next threshold of faith.

He finished “1 Week,” in June 2013 and soon found himself on a bus for two hours a day with six fellow pipeline workers. It took five months to connect with each of those men in faith. Dan recalls how the spirit instructed him to use his faith to believe for each of these individuals. Praying for these men changed Dan’s perception of faith. It became impossible to see these men as they were. After that five month walk in faith, God brought along a fellow believer and restaurant manager in Rangeley Colorado who encouraged Dan to publish “1 Week.”