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Jack Mason, immortal. Jesus calls him Father. He's lived over 2000 years... Women still desire him! |
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and from Amazon..."Incredible! Cross John Irving with Lewis Grizzard (if you dare), whisk in a drop of John LeCarré, and you have Stan Hayes’ The Rough English Equivalent." "It's over-the-top black comedy; Hayes tracks a onetime spy and his raffish retinue; Berlin to Tobacco Road, Havana, Miami and deep space." "Thumbing its nose at convention, the Jack Mason Saga draws readers quickly into its characters’ riotous lives. It invites them to awaken their sense of the absurd as they slalom through Hayes's suprarational Southernness." |
Step Into The Saga...
ANCHORS AWEIGH!
As the Saga's second novel, The Quintessence of Quick, opens in 1959, Jack Mason, the heir to a Deep-South beer distributorship, has accepted a multimillion-dollar offer for the business. As the deal's closing date nears, Jack receives his draft notice. Signing up for the Navy's flight program in the nick of time, he becomes a Naval Aviator.
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He's also struggling with a bittersweet, on-and-off affair that began when he was 16. Linda, a decade older, is a striking lady with outsized appetites. Jack's quandary is fast escalating; leave her, or live with her readily roving eye? Added female distractions include Clare Boothe Luce, former Congresswoman, Ambassador to Italy, patron of anti-Castro Cubans, aficionada of LSD and wife of a global publishing giant... |
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Early on, he tends to deal with both military and civilian worlds with youth's freely-dispensed cynicism; he and his fellow characters, however, are by turns vivid, sexy, and hot. As time passes, he acquires a sure-footed self-confidence, infuriating, cajoling, embracing a wide range of colorful cohorts and antagonists, sweeping readers along as the plot unfolds... Jack's a guy they won't soon forget!
Stormron 3's primary duty is hurricane reconaissance, flying into hurricanes in long range radar-equipped Lockheed WV-3 Super Constellations, better known to their crews as "Willie Victors." Away from this hazardous mission, squadron members plunge into the diversions of their tropical island home. This enthusiasm is fueled at virtually every turn with cheap alcohol. Top brands of Puerto Rican rum can be bought from various outlets on the base for less than a dollar a fifth. From this easy availability emerges a variety of results, from amusing to carnal to disastrous.
JACK'S MISSION:
oldest living human's voyage to the first century...
In the fifth millennium, Jack Mason, fresh from Golgotha, the site of the Crucifixion, avails himself of a hazardous opportunity. As a member of the scientific task force that developed tertiary force arrays, he volunteered for the theory's first practical test. His successful round trip from the forty-third century to the first affords him the opportunity, should he decide to travel in time once more, to choose his destination.
He picks the early years of his own long life, his mother's burly Jewish lover taking the place of his absent father in the small Georgia town that generations of her family had called home. See how it happens at Amazon...