A pro athlete has written a book unique in the fact it isnt self-biographical. Its not about his team either. In fact, its not about sports at all.

Jason Garey, a former University of Maryland star who played in MLS for six years, has self-published a fictional work with a libertarian tilt.

Geauxing Galt the title combines the French/Cajun word for go with a subject in Ayn Rands famed novel Atlas Shrugged -- is set in the near future and touches on economics and politics.

People who share my views are probably going to like it, people who dont are probably going to hate it, laughed Garey, a forward for the Carolina RailHawks in the second-division North American Soccer League. Its pretty one-sided toward economic libertarianism.

Garey, who turns 28 this month, wrote the 230-some pages while recovering from hip surgery this past winter and spring, He completed the work over six months. It became available June 20 on Amazon.com.

I was on crutches for three or four weeks and just started writing, putting down my thoughts and beliefs, and it began to take form, he said. I just thought, What the heck? Ill turn this into a book.

His wife Meghann and mother-in-law, a court reporter in Sacramento, assisted on the project. His mother Kathleen painted the cover art.

Many of the characters and topics were inspired by real-life influences in his native Louisiana, including the coastal wetlands. In one section, an oil driller, tired of politicians squabbling about solutions for the suffering wetlands, quietly buys up land over a decade and creates his own replenishing system.

Not surprisingly, Garey supported Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) for the Republican presidential nomination. Hes the only one who made sense, he said.

Explaining his own political views, Garey said: I didnt know anything until I got a taste of the world. Its part of being a rational person. Politicians on both sides make me nuts. Its frustrating.

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Jason Garey, striker and author: Soccer player writes novel based on libertarian beliefs