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The Kwame Sutra is the definitive volume on the rise and fall of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, told in his own words - including many he never expected the world to see. This slim but comprehensive volume recounts Kilpatrick's career and the text message scandal that drove him from office and is authored by the reporters who took Kilpatrick down. It includes previously unpublished text messages, comments as photos. The book uses Kilpatrick's own words to put the truth to the many lies he told, including sections in which Kilpatrick's public comments are juxtaposed with his contradictory private thoughts, captured in candid text messages typed by his own hands. Unlike many books that speculate on what its subject is thinking, for the first time ever the subject's own private text messages - including many sexually-explicit missives - reveal what is on the subject's mind. While The Kwame Sutra contains some salacious material, it is a fun but serious look back at the self-destructive career of a rising star who seemed headed for the White House, but instead ended up in the big house, sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for turning Detroit's city hall into the hub of a vast criminal enterprise that contributed to Detroit's status as the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy.

“I have always admired Tom Tomorrow for his keen intelligence and penguin-based wit, but now he has unnerved me with a story of socio-political chaos that is at once completely ridiculous and sadly familiar.”—Lemony Snicket“This is a funny book with an important message: we need penguins in government.”—Dave BarryThe mayor of the “medium-sized city” has some very strange ideas. Among them that firemen should put out fires using peanut butter instead of water and that policeman should chase robbers while wearing clown costumes. Needless to say, these decisions don’t work out too well. When Sparky the Penguin wonders why nobody thought to question these silly ideas, he finds out that people were afraid of being laughed at if they disagreed with the mayor.The first-ever children’s book from legendary cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, The Very Silly Mayor uses Tom’s unique combination of humor and social commentary to teach children to trust their own judgment, even if other people might disagree with their views or make fun of them.One of the most influential comic artists of the past twenty years, Tom Tomorrow's weekly strip, This Modern World, appears regularly in many papers across the United States, as well as on Salon.com. He is the author of numerous cartoon collections, including The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look, and Penguin Soup for the Soul.

The Kwame Sutra is the definitive volume on the rise and fall of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, told in his own words - including many he never expected the world to see. This slim but comprehensive volume recounts Kilpatrick's career and the text message scandal that drove him from office and is authored by the reporters who took Kilpatrick down. It includes previously unpublished text messages, comments as photos. The book uses Kilpatrick's own words to put the truth to the many lies he told, including sections in which Kilpatrick's public comments are juxtaposed with his contradictory private thoughts, captured in candid text messages typed by his own hands. Unlike many books that speculate on what its subject is thinking, for the first time ever the subject's own private text messages - including many sexually-explicit missives - reveal what is on the subject's mind. While The Kwame Sutra contains some salacious material, it is a fun but serious look back at the self-destructive career of a rising star who seemed headed for the White House, but instead ended up in the big house, sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for turning Detroit's city hall into the hub of a vast criminal enterprise that contributed to Detroit's status as the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy.

After an early morning machinegun attack by a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor’s office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die. It is New Year’s Eve, and with the ransom note as the only evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation’s premier document examiner Parker Kincaid to join the manhunt for the Digger—or for hundreds, the first moments of the new year will be their last on earth.