The turbulent lives and fortunes of the Spurlocks, over several generations, as they rise from poverty to great wealth and power, reflect the vitality and growth of their city and of the Lone Star State
Working name of US writer Leonard M Sanders Jr (1929-2005) US author who also published as by Dan Thomas, under which name he wrote The Seed (1968), an sf novel in which a Computer explains the meaning of life to one of its engineers. The later Hamlet Group sequence of very Near Future thrillers, comprising The Hamlet Warning (1976) and The Hamlet Ultimatum (1979), following America's attempts to prevent terrorists known as The Hamlet Group from detonating an atomic device in Santo Domingo [JC]
Once again the search program added a book to my reading list I am not nor have any intention of reading. Maybe time to move on. Their search program is poor.