America at the Precipice: Restoring the Plummeting Middle Class Standard of Living is author, Gary R. Patterson's fourth book published since 2009; preceded by What Obama and the Democrats Knew that McCain Didn't (2009), Barack Obama's "Ultimate End Game" (2011) and Jump-Starting Real Job Creation in America (2012). Patterson, a former U.S. Treasury Agent (34 years) and CPA, spent virtually his entire career conducting civil and criminal income tax fraud investigations and statistical income tax data analysis.