Four Corners - Hardcover

Clapsaddle-Counts, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571970797 ISBN 13: 9781571970794

Publisher: Pentland Press Inc.,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

Here's a model family man, tremendously successful in his public life as the powerful czar of the nation's proposed 21st century transcontinental bullet train, The Windjammer. Worthington Rhodes is highly respected, even by the President of the United States. He has everything going for him: support from Congress, the construction industry, suppliers, labor unions, and according to the latest D'Camp-CNN opinion poll, the general public. We first see him in the Dulles Airport where he is to meet his estranged father, "Dusty", an eminent archaeologist who is arriving from Athens to join with the renowned Dr. Anna Ardmore on her forthcoming Southwest excavation in the Four Corners. Worthington has taken his little daughter Emily with him, hoping to avoid an unpleasant confrontation with his father in which he might lose his temper as he had in an adolescent fracas twenty years earlier. Preservationist Anna Ardmore, beautiful, vivacious, obsessed with the prehistory Anasazi people of the Four Corners, is determined to save their many archaeological sites that are destined to be bulldozed for the wide right-of-way for Worthington's train. She can't fathom how this attractive man can be so insensitive to America's heritage. In a premeditated scheme Anna seduces Dusty in an effort to get the dirt (so to speak) on Worthington so that she can pressure him into abandoning his project. Dusty, wanting to get even with his son for not becoming an archaeologist and carrying on a three-generation family tradition, tells Anna an unbelievable story that Worthington was responsible for his uncle's death. When she challenges the validity of that yarn, he tells her to talk to Aunt Hattie up there in Maine. Meanwhile, Anna's fanatical cohort, Quentin Ford IV, chairman of the influential non-profit Institute and Living Museum of Archaeology (ILMA), has his own scheme for doing away with Worthington. After a fund-raising reception for Anna in Washington, D. C

Edition details

• Publisher: Pentland Press Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571970797
• ISBN 13: 9781571970794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208