A SHORT NOTE ABOUT DR. FISHER'S NOVEL, "A GREEN ISLAND IN A BLACK SEA"

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

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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. 

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?