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| Category: Fiction:Adventure |
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| About the Book | |
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Sam Jenkins is the product of a semi-broken home and he has two aims in life - to succeed as a real estate developer on his Eastern Shore of Virginia homeland and to win the heart of the beautiful Cilla Franklin - both of which he pursues with equal fervor. After beginning his real estate career at the most basic of levels, a combination of luck and the cooperation of a Dickensonian-type banker, a Cuban lawyer, a retired management consultant and an ambitious female broker all join forces to aid Sam in his quest. He gambles on risky properties and slowly builds a combination of incomes and watches his fractured family reunite in an off manner. Sam lives a life confronted with illigitimacy, chance taking, the unusual herbal farming of his father, the hatred of Cilla's father, an over-the-hill northern mob, violent and bloody murder that comes too close to home, investments in local bank stocks, trips abroad, a desire for something he can't quite come to grips with, accidentally stumbling on the goose that laid the golden egg and discivering that there is a Santa Claus.
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| About the Author | |
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Jack Mason graduated from W&L University in '57, had four sons and two businesses. In 2003 he wrote his autobiography 'Round Trip Ticket To Hell. He wrote another memoir, followed by four novels, and he's still typing. |