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Succession
By old time writer
Harper Prize Winning novelist Herbert Lobsenz takes us on a journey to the turbulent days of the early 1960s when our safe world was shattered by an assassin's bullet.
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Succession begins in New York City in August ‘63 with the US expecting to be out of Vietnam by December ’65, and ends in August ’64 at the time of the attack on the Maddox. Jake Garrison has quit his career as a liquidator of failing businesses to write a book that will preserve the memories of his father, a battlefield surgeon in World War I, and his grandfather, an officer in the Army of the Potomac. Jake and his wife, Diana, are childless. She heads a division of Colepool Publishers. Garrison’s father begins bleeding internally and must be hospitalized, but has no money. He asks Garrison for drops to kill him fast—dignity still intact. Garrison goes to Charles Carnusty, whom he suspects of being Diana’s lover, to borrow money to pay his father’s bills. Carnusty persuades him to help liquidate Kensington, a typewriter company squeezed between low cost Asian products and IBM-computer technology. Diana and Garrison grow farther apart. Unexpectedly. Diana becomes pregnant. Garrison suspects Carnusty is the father.
