A SHORT NOTE ABOUT DR. FISHER'S NOVEL
A GREEN ISLAND IN A
BLACK SEA
James R. Fisher, Jr.,
Ph.D.
“A Novel of the
future in the mirror of the past!”
© August 15, 2014
REFERENCE:
This novel is to be on Amazon's Kindle book listings, and is offered to give the reader a sense of what the book is about.
South Africa in 1968
brought together an American outsider to the confines of an outsider nation,
the Afrikaner government with its draconian practices of apartheid, or separate development of the races.
Young Seamus “Dirk” Devlin, born during The Great Depression of the 1930s, rose from the
American working class to executive status with the collapse of social stratification in the United States after
World War Two.
The Devlin family entered
this shadow world without protocol or preparation. By the irony of circumstances, 1968 marked
the end of the American Century 32 years early. Everything changed after 1968, politically, socially, economically and technologically as the world was caught off guard in an unprecedented cultural tsunami.
At the same time, the United States assumed its hegemony now a global superpower without historical precedence.
Dirk Devlin
wasn’t primed for this challenging assignment to form a new company in a culture of
clashing values. Nor was the United States prepared
for its new role in the world order.
Viability, entitlement and survival were at issue in South Africa, the United States and in Devlin's head, as if everything was rising from the ashes of Phoenix to take center stage.
Viability, entitlement and survival were at issue in South Africa, the United States and in Devlin's head, as if everything was rising from the ashes of Phoenix to take center stage.
This
novel, played out against colonial pretense and jaded morality, is the story of
a man and his family swept up in the dawn of a new era, of an unexpected love affair, of murder, mayhem and chicanery, struggling mightily to hold on to fragile sanity, while captive to ubiquitous deception
and pervasive betrayal.
This psychological novel asks the question: has anything changed since 1968?
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