S Y N O P S I S

THE CAT WILL MEW AND DOG WILL HAVE HIS DAY

(Hamlet. Hamlet to Laertes, Act V, Scene 1)

Type of book: Novel

Author : Richard B. Beal, Jr.

Type of plot: Political intrigue

Time of plot: Early 21st Century (flashbacks to the American Revolutionary era

                           and to Oxford in the 1960s)

Locale :  Washington, D.C., London and Oxford,

  England, and Lincolnton, North Carolina

Principal characters:

Beulah Belle Frid. Strategist for Republican presidential campaign.

Peter R. Flatwood. Senate Majority Leader; Republican candidate for President.

Y. Yates Chiddingstone. British political operative in the United States; Flatwood's              case officer.

Delphine E. Higgins. U.S. Government's executive secretary for Green Angel, the operation to capture Canada.

Elmore G. Brasted Speech writer for Flatwood's campaign; Beulah Belle's lover.

Asbury S. Wisener. Democratic President of the United States and candidate for reelection.

Credulous C. Raper. The President's principal advisor, a Machiavellian hatchet man.

Drage, Theobald, History professor. Expert on Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.

Concept. The book starts on three separate and unrelated tracks. The tracks and the people in them gradually merge as the story builds to a climax. The historical aspects are partly factual, partly an adoption of one side of disputed historical evidence, and partly pure fiction.