Techies, Trials & Terrorists

Even a billion dollars can't liberate Frank Babcock. He knows that his jealousy has contributed to the murder of Wayne Johnson, the man he once believed had illegitimately fathered his own heir, Fox Babcock. The wrong Johnson was murdered. Mickey Johnson not Wayne Johnson was Fox Babcock's biological father. The Babcock/Johnson Feud persists in the third volume of the "Generation Series" as the two Long Island families battle through another iteration of generational loathing. The animosity between the Babcocks and the Johnsons escalates against a new backdrop of global instability - a product of racial unrest; radical religious extremism and the technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web. The final decade of the twentieth century brings the Babcock/Johnson Feud into a New York courtroom, even as global economic inequities bring the United States into a global kangaroo court replete with terrorist judges. "Techies, Trials & Terrorists" takes the feuding Long Island families through a decade of desperation and distrust that culminates in the long awaited murder trial of Frank Babcock. The trial itself rehashes a 25 year old love quadrangle that resulted in the ambiguous parentage of Dr. Fox Babcock. Fox Babcock is now married and has children of his own. But just like his mother, Fox Babcock has not remained faithful to his spouse. In fact Fox has parented an illegitimate child of his own. New familial discord lurks in the background as the murder trial unfolds. And while carnal revelations, during seamy trial testimony, recount old erotic discord between the Babcocks and the Johnsons, the more recent sexual liaisons further undermine any possibility of rapprochement. Meanwhile, Frank Babcock has a new Jewish bride, a new Christian son and a new Saudi Arabian mistress. His business takes him throughout the Middle East even as his young wife remains in New York parenting her sister's child. Life becomes ever more intriguing for the billionaire as the existence of his varied business and personal relationships are compromised by his compelled cooperation with American Intelligence agencies. These agencies are investigating the ties of a certain Saudi Arabian family to the rise of terrorist attacks against the United States. As the twentieth century hurdles toward a close and the dawning of the new millennium awaits, the lives of several generations of Johnsons and Babcocks become ever-more entwined. As the internet age unfolds on a global stage, the financial prosperity of the feuding families blossoms along with the burgeoning technology. The saga of sex, money, murder and mayhem follows the family fortunes from the dunes of Saudi Arabia to the white waters of West Virginia and back again to the shores of Long Island. This third book of the "Generations Series" highlights the transient decade that sets up the new Millennium and the challenges that await all of the characters as they embark on 21st Century and the advent of the Social Media. This in turn will be the subject matter of Book 4 in the Generation Series: "Madmen, Millennials & Malcontents: The Social Media Generation." (Due for Publication in the Fall of 2020)