When a crooked used car salesman invents a perpetual motion machine he is thrown into Science Prison and incarcerated, along with various other inmates who have violated scientific laws; kept in place to prevent such inventions from destroying the economy.In Science Prison our car salesman meets a colorful assortment of other inmates including: a New York model who's been rendered invisible from swallowing a new kind of vanishing cream; two bank robbers that invented a time machine; and a 50,000-mile tall clown from outer space, who's been shrunk down to size. Other inmates in the prison include a 40,000-year-old man who was jailed back in 1910 by terrified doctors; a monk who tried and failed to build a perpetual motion machine, but wanted to go to the prison anyway to meet secret "celebrities"; and Saddam Hussein, who's been jailed for being in two places at the same time.Eventually this misfit band of scientific criminals formulates an escape, only to be pursued by a detective who bears a strong resemblance to Peter Falk's Columbo. Will they get away with it? Find out when What is the Government Doing Now? reaches its dramatic and humorous crescendo.Edwin Newman is a retired inventor who grew up in Wooster, Ohio. Having previously authored New Directions in Renewable Energy, which is available at Amazon KDP, What Is the Government Doing Now? is his second book. It was motivated by the author's view that America is currently in need of a good laugh. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/EdwinNewman