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Power-mad Cesare Groznyy is in trouble. His scheming may have made him the president of an American university but his hubris has him pinned into a corner. He has enemies in his staff, in his family, and in his bed. Before long, the bitter controversies swirling around Groznyy's phony academic schemes will seem the least of his worries. His third wife, rising star singer Holly Wood, plans to expose him as the murderer of his son Modest. Under Groznyy's very nose, meanwhile, terrorist fanatics are plotting at Groznyy's own university. It's the early 1990s, and an atrocity is about to strike the World Trade Center in New York.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Power-mad Cesare Groznyy is in trouble. His scheming may have made him the president of an American university but his hubris has him pinned into a corner. He has enemies in his staff, in his family, and in his bed. Before long, the bitter controversies swirling around Groznyy's phony academic schemes will seem the least of his worries. His third wife, rising star singer Holly Wood, plans to expose him as the murderer of his son Modest. Under Groznyy's very nose, meanwhile, terrorist fanatics are plotting at Groznyy's own university. It's the early 1990s, and an atrocity is about to strike the World Trade Center in New York.
Autorenporträt
Sean Dennis Cashman worked as a historian for New York University Press, an editor for the Ford Foundation and a music and theatre journalist for the New Haven Register. He taught at the University of Manchester, New York University and Adelphi University on Long Island where he was dean of arts and sciences. His America in the Gilded Age is a classic. In this novel, he draws from his varied life to create a vivid tapestry mixing history, fantasy and satire. Kings buried in Westminster Abbey rise on All Souls' Eve. They entertain a New York family for a scary price. OTHER BOOKS BY SDC INCLUDE: America in the Gilded Age America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and World War I America Ascendant: From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-1945 War in Pieces 1: Ivan the Terrible from Tulsa War in Pieces 2: The Holly Wood Years of Ivan the Terrible Luke Reader, blind detective