The Peninsula

by Alan Thompson

“THE PENINSULA preened in the bright sunshine. Its waters gleamed, and the alternating colors – dwellings and gardens and the varied evergreens of live oak, magnolia and palmetto – marched up a slight incline from White Point Gardens to Calhoun Street, an expanse of little more than one square mile. The survivor of conflagrations too numerous to count, the Peninsula was smug in its history. . .”
Thus begins a tale of terrorism, degradation and destruction set in the one-time capital of the Deep South. The Peninsula, having shed its former provincialism in favor of world-wide celebrity, comes under attack for what it was and what it has become. Its citizens, those rooted in 350 years of history and those who arrived yesterday, are set against one another at the same time implacable forces gather to destroy it.

274 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2019

About the author

Born in Danville, Kentucky, on January 31, 1949, Mr. Thompson grew up in his beloved Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A 1966 graduate of Chapel Hill High School, he received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1970, and his J.D. from the same institution in 1973. He has practiced law for the past forty years, primarily in Atlanta, Georgia, and now resides in Georgetown, South Carolina. His civil trial work extended to dozens of jurisdictions throughout the United States, Australia and England, and he contributed to several professional journals and treatises dealing with his particular area of expertise, construction law.
He began writing seriously in 2008, and his first novel, A Hollow Cup, was published in 2011. He and his wife Barbie have two sons, one a lawyer in Salt Lake City, the other a Navy helicopter pilot currently stationed in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Mr. Thompson plays an occasional round of bad golf, and he and his bride can sometimes be found having a late-afternoon cocktail or glass of wine at the beach.