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To: Travis McGee

Is that a good book Trav? I haven’t checked the URL yet. I’m catching up...


8 posted on 01/11/2008 7:50:06 PM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: hiredhand

Plot

The story begins in Bombay, India, where the Dutch government has announced a policy that Indian babies will be adopted and raised in the Netherlands. The policy is reversed when the Dutch consulate is inundated with parents eager to give up their infant children as it would be one less mouth to feed. A Indian “wise man” then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run down freighters approaching the French coast. The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the plentiful food and water that are in short supply their native India. Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of England must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia.


10 posted on 01/11/2008 8:01:09 PM PST by Leisler
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To: hiredhand

It’s dated in many respects (India starving etc) but is right on the broader strokes.

Incidentally, the Southern Poverty Law Center called my second novel “The American Camp of the Saints.”


13 posted on 01/11/2008 8:12:29 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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