Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
The simplest way I can think of to "blurb" my novel is to reprint the pitch letter I sent to various Lit Agencies. With personal details omitted, it is reprinted, below:
Donald Rumsfeld has been fired. In the last eight minutes of his tenure as secretary of defense, Rumsfeld is besieged by a host of memories, ages-old quarrels and final reminders of the end of his professional life. Facing a bitter segue to retirement, Rumsfeld leaves Washington for a week-long recuperation at his estate on the Chesapeake Bay. There, in isolation, he intends to peacefully spend time before the Christmas Holidays beginning the writing of his memoirs. But all is not well at his estate, known to history as "Mount Misery". On a property formerly owned by a notorious "slave breaker", Edward Covey, Rumsfeld faces a host of confrontations – with his past, his legacy, and a disastrously failed war which posterity will long remember his name by. He may also be facing something else – what could be the spirit of Frederick Douglass, the most famous and perhaps tragic victim of Edward Covey, master slave breaker and former owner of Rumsfeld's vacation estate. Though composed of multiple themes, the final question of this novel is quite simple: How can a man who refuses to say what is "good" ever know when he is doing "evil"?
