About This Book
Boomer Joy and Angst Over Seven Decades! Amidst unprecedented chaos on campus â€" vandalism, rape, even murder â€" the Chancellor aims to destroy the Order, a mysterious secret society founded at the College 200 years earlier. Harry Monmouth is enlisted to defend the “knights†and their secrets. His efforts lead him into the past, to the beginning of the Order and events that cast light on the present-day turmoil. The Order is the newest entry in the New Hope Canon, a series of novels depicting the lives of the Baby Boom generation in a small college town in the South. New Hope, a stand-in for the author’s hometown of Chapel Hill, NC, provides the stage where its Boomer characters confront momentous issues, some imposed by the past, others of their own making. Murder and mayhem, products of the ferment, wind among them. The first book, A Hollow Cup, explores the racial turmoil of the 60s as seen through the eyes of teenagers â€" black and white â€" while at the same time recalling the everyday, bittersweet realities of growing up in that era. In Gods and Lesser Men, a young couple struggles with the Sexual Revolution, unplanned pregnancy and the newly-minted option of abortion just as a relic of the enlightened past, eugenics, threatens to destroy them. Lucifer’s Promise describes the quest for immortality and The Order delves into the one unshakable truth of the generations of Man: Each one is undeniably the product of those that go before.
