People from all walks, young and old, rich and poor, brought
together by desire and circumstance to confront illusion and
splendor - "caught up in the rings" - a dazzling spectacle of
deception, vengeance, and courage played out against backdrops as
diverse as West Africa, Washington, DC and Monte-Carlo. "In the
Splendeur grand salon, nothing grand, simply the despondent faces
of traumatized people all walks of life, old and young and rich and
poor, caught up in the rings, huddling together helpless as the day
they were born." A fisherman from Gabon, a British Secret
Intelligence Service officer in West Africa, a German assassin, a
Washington, DC college professor, an Afghan heroin producer living
in Paris, a National Security Agency specialist in Washington, a
high-priced French escort, the CEO of a French telecommunications
company, an American shipping tycoon living in Dubai, an assortment
of wealthy businesspeople, their families, and a band of African
terrorists-Illusion of Splendor is an imaginative interlocking
story merging currents of poverty, extravagance, terrorism and
power. "'Where is the cause?' he thought, the glorious cause that
transcends human frailty, making unconscionable acts noble, ignoble
men respectable. Freedom fighters or soldiers of fortune, Raymond
and Gatimu were in the end simply capitalists selling their talents
in a free market. They became the thing they most loathed. Worse
yet, unrestrained by laws or norms of society they were rogues to
whom eliminating an impediment to greater profit through the taking
of life seemed no more dastardly than the lie told a prospective
customer." This is the first novel by J.D. Easley-a courtroom
lawyer with a varied background who brings considerable world
travel, legal, and business experience to his writing.
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