Chapter 27As the months passed after the GroCo scandal, Tessa Sukova was becoming increasingly worried about her husband’s health. He seemed more preoccupied than ever, and his upbeat nature, which had always been part of his DNA, was no longer something she could take for granted. She knew why. It was the media. And she knew too that curing his low spirits was beyond her.
Every day and night in the media there was a consistent and familiar theme: a litany of protest about federal and state government, a breakdown of trust in the country’s elected leaders, and growing criticism of the Sukova Administration. The polls showed two connected patterns: people were up in arms about the failures of the country’s major institutions, whether political, corporate, or operational; and they were heap
