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...ports are clogged with rusting ships; only the rich have enough to eat. When old-fashioned Liberal Andrew Hillier, second cousin to Dictator Frank, gets back to England from his self-imposed exile in Norway, this is the England he finds. Andrew's sister has married Richard Sacker, the Dictator's right-hand man, so Andrew has some privileges where otherwise he would not have been safe...
...Sacker and the Dictator have been friends for years, and now that they are at the top of the heap, Sacker thinks he is sitting pretty. As organizer and commander of the 1,600,000 National Volunteers that put Hillier in power, he feels himself indispensable, thinks Hillier will give him a free hand to reorganize England into a tight little fighting machine. "He began describing the England he would create when he and his friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious...
...Hillier and his banker backers consider Sacker's private army a menace, now that it has served its purpose, and plan to disband it. Sacker, who cannot believe that his adored friend Hillier would double-cross him, thinks he would be unofficially glad to have his hand forced, plots a dangerous coup. Because he lets the wrong people in on his secret the plot is nipped in the bud. Sacker's arrest and execution is the signal for a general blood purge. Before it is over and England shudders into regimented quiet, Liberal Andrew is glad to make...
Author Jameson has shrewdly taken more than one leaf from recent history. To skeptical readers who might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...
Chief of the veterans were Johnny Adzigian, stellar third sacker a year ago, Bill Lincoln, on whom the main burden of the pitching will rest, Captain Dick Maguire, Drib Braggiotti, a potentially fine pitcher, Ben Prouty, the speedy outfielder, and wise-cracking Craig Woodruff...