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For Sully's Sake

Synopsis

For Sully’s Sake chronicles the life, loves, and variegated adventures of a young Boston newspaper reporter of Greek-American parentage. Homer Janos, brought up in the tough "Mission Hill" section, has known first-hand the threat to human happiness and progress wrought by prejudice and bigotry. He has seen Yankee vie with Irishman, and Irishman with Italian, and Italian with Greek. He has seen the horrors of anti-Semitism and anti-African-American attitudes, and he has had enough of it, and sets out to do what good he can for as many as he can.

This fascinating and tempestuous novel moves at a fast pace against a colorful and varied Boston setting. We meet the "little people" of that great metropolis, in all their fascinating foibles, their pettiness, generosities, loves, and lusts. A melting pot that refuses to melt, like so many great American cities, Boston can be cruel to those who lack will or guts to buck it, and in this incisive study of the hunters and the hunted, the winners and the losers, the predators and the victims, Harris P. Jameson has captured all that is wild, vital, and wonderful in the "now" Boston scene.

We move with Homer through the typical rounds of a big city newspaper reporter. We suffer with him through a love affair gone sour. And when his childhood friend is murdered, we go along in ever increasing excitement as Homer uncovers the horrors of a drug syndicate, exposes the true nemesis of the new youth gangs, and has a brush with death.

If you want to know the REAL Boston better, if you love excitement and the breathless pace of adventure and danger that have a first-hand immediacy about them, this is the novel for you.

And it is told as only an observant and experienced Boston-born-and-bred author could tell it. With this, his first book, Harris P. Jameson makes an auspicious debut.

Author Biography

Harris P. Jameson

Harris P. Jameson has caught the authentic flavor of the Boston he writes about so well in For Sully’s Sake, as he was born there in 1932 and graduated from Boston Latin School, the oldest public high school in the nation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University, a Master of Education degree from Boston State College, and has done graduate work at Boston University, Clark University, and Harvard University.

Jameson served as an Army Military Instructor, played semi-pro baseball, and is a retired high school mathematics teacher who was also an assistant football coach and head varsity baseball coach for forty years at Lynnfield High School in Massachusetts. He has written for newspapers and has been marketing his writings, Jameson’s Chronicles since 1989. Currently, he and his wife Bess reside in Wakefield, Massachusetts.