title: Wired for Greed: The Shocking Truth about America's Electric Utilities
author: Joe Seeber
description: Joe Seeber has audited electric utilities for more than twenty-five years. He?s founder and president of Tri-Stem. He and his wife, Elaine, live near Waco, Texas.Jim Moore is the author of nine books. He holds degrees in history and political science, and he divides his time between Texas and the United Kingdom.
zlib_text: The Testament 
  John Grisham 
   
  ONE. 
  DOWN TO THE LAST DAY, even the last hour now. I'm an old man, lonely and 
  unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be 
  better than this. 
  I own the tall glass building in which I sit, and 97 percent of the company housed in it, 
  below me, and the land around it half a mile in three directions, and the two thousand 
  people who work here and the other twenty thousand who do not, and I own the pipeline 
  under the land that brings gas to the building from my fields in Texas, and I own the 
  utility lines that deliver electricity, and I lease the satellite unseen miles above by which I 
  once barked commands to my empire flung far around the world. My assets exceed 
  eleven billion dollars. I own silver in Nevada and copper in Montana and coffee in Kenya 
  and coal in Angola and rubber in Malaysia and natural gas in Texas and crude oil in 
  Indonesia and steel in China. My company owns companies that produce elect