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Book 1: The Assignment, 450 pages, paperback, $19.95
Book 2: Unanticipated Consequences, 470 pages, paperback, $19.95
Book 1 & Book 2, each $2.99 as e-books
DEVLIN BOOK DESCRIPTION
The year is 1968, the
milieu South Africa. It is a year in which moral certainty for one Seamus
“Dirk” Devlin is rudely dislodged from its comfortable moorings, demolishing
his pollyannish concept of a promised future. Devlin, a young Irish American
chemical engineer of provincial roots finds himself immersed in a country and
culture he knows precious little about, charged with the daunting task of
effecting the merger of disparate chemical enterprises into a fully functioning
new conglomerate. Dirk performs this corporate sleight of hand in the foul
atmosphere of APARTHEID, an Afrikaner diktat beyond his bucolic grasp. Here, a
quarter-century past WWII, the United States stumbles into the future,
uncomfortable under its new mantle—not just the grocery and hardware store of
the world but, de facto, a global police service. No longer couched in Edenic
bliss between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the U.S. is saddled with the
prestige and the burden of free world hegemony, a role for which history did
not prepare it, frequently performing with distasteful hubris. Exhibiting his
formidable technocratic expertise, Devlin invariably projects that American
conceit. Culturally programmed for another time and a different world, he soon
finds himself exposed on a foreign stage, his moral certitude collapsing. The
resulting psychological anguish introduces Dirk to a ‘self’ he did not know in
an unfamiliar world that still holds the modern mind hostage.
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