Overcoming disabling injuries, Vietnam vet Paul Bernard becomes an award-winning journalist and television newsman known for holding a mirror to American society. Long critical of the radical right, after 9-11 Bernard attacks the Bush administration for Osama bin Laden's escape and leading the nation into a disastrous war. On assignment in Iraq, Bernard is killed under suspicious circumstances. Interwoven with the account of his life is an interview of his mentor, Professor Augustus F.X. Flynn, by a magazine writer profiling him. Frustrated by Washington's inaction, the two set out to find the truth about the killing.<br><br>In Book Two, Paul Bernard has become an oil expert and a critic of America's Middle East dependency. His experiences as a correspondent in Paris and Moscow are related in this Book, his coverage of the great year 1989 in Europe, the Gulf War. Bernard's move to television news is marked by growing clashes with the radical right, culminating in his controversial stance against the Iraq War and the dramatic final events of the story.
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Jan David Blais. Twentieth Century Limited Book Two ~ Age of Reckoning
PART ONE. ROUGH ROADS. 1. Clay Feet And Other Surprises
2. Carter Agonistes
3. Do You Believe In Magic?
4. Morning In America
5. En France, En Français
6. Highways And Byways
7. A Backward Glance
8. Sad, Sadder, Saddest
PART TWO. PINNACLES. 9. Ups And Downs, Some More Than Others
10. Trust And Verify
11. Takeover
12. A Tale Of Three Cities
13. Audacity And Doubt
14. That Year In Europe
15. Conflagration
16. What’s It Worth To You?
17. Back To The Future
18. Clothes Make The Man
PART THREE. BEYOND PINNACLES. 19. Mid-Century Man
20. Settling In
21. The Second Shoe
22. Another New Mantle
23. Storm Warnings
24. Speaking Of Fundamentals
25. The March Of Folly
26. Whatever It Takes
27. Fall And Rise
28. Dies Irae, Dies Illa
29. The Sleep Of Reason Brings Forth Monsters
PART FOUR. END GAME. 30. Target Selection
31. Be Careful What You Wish For
32. Whirl Is King
33. Face To Face
34. - 30 -
EPILOGUE. Epilogue
WORKS CONSULTED
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I ARRIVE EARLY AT STEVE’S OFFICE but, as usual, he’s already there. For a lawyer, the guy works very hard. Cahill arrives mid-morning and greets me with a hearty handshake. He is from North Cambridge – we went through BC together. I studied, he played football. Big florid-faced, blustery Irishman, think Tip O’Neill. After a hundred seventeen minutes – I am counting the ticks – they pronounce my answers satisfactory. Steve will file them and move to dismiss the case. It won’t succeed, he says, but we’ll give the judge a preview of our case. What I think about our case is not printable, but that’s just me.
We’ve received another missive from Paul’s ex, the fair Diane, demanding to know what I am doing with his stuff, saying it’s hers though for a price she’ll let me do all the work. We’re past the point of what she is, it’s just a matter of how much. Painful, reading Paul’s journals, seeing the problems develop between them. Makes me thankful – I was very lucky. I met that Lucie who has just surfaced only once, but I don’t want to spoil that story.
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“I don’t know, I haven’t given it any thought... you know.”
“You’d do fine. And the French Alps are wonderful – I know some great places.”
