The President's Daughter
Chapter One
Jake Cazalet was twenty-six years old when it happened,
the incident that was to have such a profound effect on the rest of
his life.
His family were Boston Brahmins, well respected, his mother
hugely wealthy, his father a successful attorney and Senator, which
meant that the law seemed the natural way to go for young Jake.
Harvard and the privileged life, and as a college student it was
possible to avoid the draft and Vietnam seemed far away.
And Jake did well, a brilliant student who got an excellent degree
and moved on to Harvard Law School with enormous success. A
great future was predicted. He started on a doctorate, and then a
strange thing happened.
For some time, he had been disturbed by the scenes from
Vietnam, the way he saw that brutal war portrayed on television
each night. Sometimes it seemed like a vision from hell. A sea cha ... read full excerpt from President's Daughter, The ebook
