The trilogy continues to the closing stages of 1951.
When Gus reflected all that had happened during the year, it made his head spin. He discovers that his legal assistant, Samantha Lockwood, is a woman not a man and that she is the sister of his old school friend Barney Short. He falls in love with her and they eventually marry.
However he regarded Pringle's legacy to him as the most important of all. It had nothing to do with his money or the royalties from the books ‘The Ghetto' and ‘The Wilderness Years' but the fact that the man's death caused him to focus his thoughts on the future to re-evaluate his life. He was grateful for that yet behind the scenes there was a lot of unfinished business to attend to.
He has the unenviable task of finding his step-sister Greta to bring all the Ekland family together… the knowledge that he might have to assist the King of Sweden in his fight against the politicians… there was his child born of Hannah Greenberg whom she would bring up in the Jewish faith… and there was his promise to Winston Churchill to advise the Conservative Party before the next General Election.
Other matters in his life seemed relatively unimportant but, no doubt, there would be many more good and bad intrusions into it during the coming years. In fact, when he thought about the end of 1951, he realised that his life was only just beginning!
A cracking story; a truly brilliant and creative trilogy!
