This outstanding novel, based on the truth and written with colour and humour, is a pleasure to read.

It features Howard Steele from birth. His parents, comfortably off, live in the New Forest. He flies in Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command over Germany in 1944/5. This does justice to over 45,000 aircrew who were lost.

Howard enters the world of international finance as an assistant to the great merchant Bayard Hutchings whose equally dubious friend is Arnold Taylor. Their rise in the UK and abroad, under the watchful eyes of the goddess Nemesis, is given in detail.

Graphically, the story tells also of Hector Scott, his wife, and Emily from Scotland; they live in India in the dangerous but heady days of the British Raj. They return to Hector's mansion in the heart of rural Dorset. Emily's life is charted in full as deeds are followed inexorably by consequences.

While aiming at action and suspense, this novel communicates wisdom embodying depth psychology, religion, literature, philosophy, and science to offer the latest understanding of the point and purpose of life.

The vital core of this novel concerns Howard's relationships with remarkable females, particularly Esme, daughter of Bayard, and a beautiful and very attractive friend whom he meets at University before leaving to become a pilot.

This work is literature with a permanent and popular appeal covering, imaginatively, the full range of contemporary insight and comprehension. Based on a lifetime's research and experience in war and peace, up to and including the highest levels in many parts of the world, this fine novel is essential reading.

Power and Beauty is available from:

Richard Fitt, Authors on Line, Adams Yard, Maidenhead Street, Hertford 5G14 1DR. Tel: 01992 503151. Fax: 01992 535424.

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