Devlin
A Psychological Novel
The
year 1968 severed the moral certainty of the past from the future shattering
traditional anchors and reliable reference points. Seamus, “Dirk” Devlin, a young Irish American
engineer of provincial roots, finds himself in South Africa to facilitate the
formation of a new conglomerate in the era of Afrikaner apartheid, a policy
beyond his bucolic grasp.
The
United States, staggering into the future, its security once nestled between
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was now vulnerable to the rest of the world beyond
those comfortable limits.
WWII
left nations across the globe in physical devastation and economic turmoil dependent
on the industrial and technological support of the U.S. to put them right. This challenge revealed the naiveté of
American intellectuals, pundits, politicians, industrial leaders and ordinary
citizens, such as Devlin, on how the world worked in recovery.
This
psychological novel introduces the reader to Devlin’s world, and possibly, to the
reader’s as well.
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