ASIN: B003YXXKP2
Publisher: The Patrick Henry Press
Pages: 186
The chief villain of We Three Kings is representative of the most bizarre and anachronistic statist at large in 1980, when I finished this novel, and in 2010: a royal Saudi sheik. The heroes who refuse to submit to his will — neither pragmatically, nor politically, nor in terms of Islam (which means “submission”) — are Merritt Fury, an American entrepreneur, and a New York City police detective. The enablers who sic the Saudi mujahideen on them are the amoral, pragmatic denizens of the State Department. We Three Kings is about how a single man, moved by the moral principle that one’s life and property are one’s own, can foil the faceless enablers and defeat a vicious conspiracy to deny him his property and his life. At issue is the possession of a rare gold coin, a British £5 Queen Una, given to Fury by a man whose life he saved. That man, Stephen Crenshaw, is subsequently murdered by ...
