The Memphis Kingmaker Cecilia Hallman 0977893006 The Memphis Kingmaker
A Novel by
Cecilia A. Hallman
and
L. Douglass BrownHistorical Fiction
ISBN: 0-977-8930-0-6
Hardcover, 374 pages, $26.95
The Memphis Kingmaker is the riveting new novel by Cecilia A. Hallman, an Aiken, South Carolina author and L. Douglass Brown, a published Southern writer. The story of a rags-to-riches Tennessee man and his Georgia-born companion will keep readers on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next.
Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, the night life of Miami and the Atlanta social scene are among the many locales that take the reader on a journey with these two fascinating characters; John Henry Thompson, a West Point graduate and his confidante Ophelia Hartwell, a pretty, hard-charging Southern girl from rural Georgia. Politics, treachery and international intrigue make The Memphis Kingmaker a must-read novel.
An excerpt:
Down the line were future comrades who wondered what in the hell they had gotten themselves into. A special few would be friends, close friends of John. They would need his help in scaling great heights in politics, while another, the dictator of his own banana republic. John would know them for life, control them all and have more money and power than all of them combined. He would enable them too, helping them climb their ladders of success -- quite a Class of 1946.
Cecilia A. Hallman completed her university studies in South Carolina, at the University of Oxford and Tulane University. When not traveling and writing, she lives in Aiken, South Carolina.
