The Great Society

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The ‘Timeline 10/27/62 — USA Series’ is an alternative history of the modern world and because of this real historical characters are referenced and in some cases their words and actions form significant parts of the narrative. I have no way of knowing if these real, historical figures, would have spoken thus, or acted in the ways I depict them acting. Any word I place in the mouth of a real historical figure, and any action which I attribute to them on or after 27th October 1962 never actually happened. As I always say in my Author’s Notes to my readers, I made it up in my own head.

He sat behind the wheel of his black 1958 Lincoln and smoked a cigarette as he viewed the chaos of flashing blue and red lights three hundred yards away down the road. He knew he ought to have been long gone but something had kept him close; as if he could not move on without seeing with his own eyes the final denouement of his career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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