The Landlord's Disclosure

by Miller, Stewart Craig

• ISBN13: 9781468173703
• ISBN10: 1468173707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-05
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

It was 1968, and America had been sinking into cultural chaos since John F. Kennedy was assassinated. As the Vietnam War escalated U.S. politicians were accused of being profiteers and hypocrites for continuing a pseudo-battle for freedom against communism. Student protests, riots, and demonstrations were commonplace and hippies advanced their protests in a new drop-out culture of peace, free-love, and drugs. April 4th, 1968, an apocalypse of arsons and deadly riots followed the Martin Luther King assassination, cities were burning while body-bags were unceremoniously shipped home. Jim Roberts, the man called "The Landlord", was a hermit inside his stately stone and stucco Tudor mansion located in the center of a three acre estate surrounded by a barricade of hedges, spacious manicured lawns and a large swimming pool. Gus, Joe, and Ted, finishing college and working jobs during the weekdays of summer, were celebrating together mostly for not yet being drafted. Their time was running out as draft deferments were ending, so, they rented a three bedroom mobile home for weekend parties on the Landlord's hidden oasis. The bombastic Landlord indoctrinates the renters in his philosophy, politics and war. He befriends Gus and assists him in his quest to understand life, women and find his lost love. Gus struggles to stay on course through the temptations and evils of the times. The Landlord leaks a riddle to the renters about a covert plot to murder a politician. The renters are baffled by Jim's prophetic ranting and the uncanny timing of his prophecy. Over time the Landlord soberly confides in Gus and discloses an incredible tale of uncovering a complicated conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy while working inside the CIA and how he solved the most complicated "who done it" of all time.