From the author of The Santanic Condition and City at Bay, a novel of a modern American dynasty — and the conflict of blood and power that nearly brings about its destruction.

It is 1964, the dawn of America"s energy alert. Competing companies jockey for control of existing resources while they search for new sources of power.

As California Edison takes the first steps towards establishing a nuclear power plant, Richard James Schilling III, executive vice-president, soon to be president, plunges to his death from San Francisco"s Huntington Hotel.

His wife is unconvinced that his death is a suicide. Her investigation reveals a bizarre series of seemingly unrelated, violent events that lead to the core of the Schilling dynasty, which spawned a generation of deception, fronted by a gilded magnificence. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dynasty of Power (David Thoreau)