John L. Pattillo

Sovereign: Book One: a Raking Light John L. Pattillo

In a foreign, strife-torn land, and then in America, two brothers' lives turn from hero-worship to a deadly contest. What could drive these two to become mortal enemies? Can either survive as an individual? You have heard the story of the unrecognized artistic genius, but what of the genius recognized too well...recognized and envied. Why should his brilliant talent be hostage to lethal seeds sown in his childhood? How could two brothers, so different, both love the same woman? How could she be attracted to each? Why would the clash of an individual against his race tear a family apart? Do you owe your life to your race? Do you owe your life to your family? What do you owe to yourself? What is an individual? What ideas create individualism in a man's soul and in a culture? What ideas create racism? What is the nature of the clash between individualism and its opposite, racism? What will happen when a young woman discovers that the man she had worshipped is a monster? -- when a man discovers that he has given up the woman who should have been his? -- when a woman who had seduced a man discovers that she has defiled not just her body but her soul? -- when a woman must choose between her husband and her two sons? -- when a man's two brothers oppose everything he stands for? -- when a father must choose between two sons? Read Sovereign to discover the answers to these questions.