Retribution: The Mogul

Will the truth set you free?
To the outsider, Thomas Van Steen seems to have everything—a successful business, a beautiful, sexy wife, a loyal best friend, expensive cars, and custom-tailored suits. But on the inside, his life is not as perfect as it seems. His aging mother is experiencing rapidly declining health. To see her through her last days, he has set her up in his New York City penthouse with the best care money can buy. Another flaw in his so-called perfect life is that Thomas is oblivious to the fact that he's a misogynistic, narcissistic hypocrite who treats everyone except his mother with contempt and disdain.
Trapped inside a high-tech elevator where he can see and hear but not communicate, powerless in every way, he feels the cracks forming in the carefully laid foundations of his world and is forced to witness events that upend his perception of reality.

Andrew Butters is a writer and creator, and a married father of two living in New Brunswick, Canada. He'll tell you that his first published work was Losing Vern as part of the Orange Karen: A Tribute to a Warrior anthology. In reality, it was a 500-word anecdote about the time he lit himself on fire. That story was included in the third installment of the Darwin Awards books. His humorous memoir of misfortune, Near Death By A Thousand Cuts, features the uncensored version.
Not all his distinctions are as dubious as appearing in a Darwin Awards book. He participated in a trick on stage with Penn & Teller and appeared on the Super Dave Osborne Show. How about scoring a game-winning goal at Maple Leaf Gardens and "selling" music to filmmaker Kevin Smith? Then, there were his three seconds of non-speaking airtime in a TV commercial. And don't forget when he appeared as a fighting, unhoused man in a hip-hop video.
With several books in print, Andrew has demonstrated talents across multiple genres, including heartwarming and hilarious nonfiction, dystopian soft sci-fi, and a mind-bending psychological thriller.
Andrew writes, creates, eats snacks, blogs, toils over his next novel, creates videos, enjoys golf, science, EQUALITY, the Oxford comma, and sometimes lets his love of attention override common sense. You can find evidence of this pretty much anywhere you can find Andrew.