Dixon Long

Sea of Troubles Dixon Long

Publisher Marketing: Harald Hanson becomes president of a small Ohio college while still young and inexperienced. Stebbins College has built its curriculum around environmental issues: Harald is recruited on the strength of his popular book about the environment, Greening Up. Once in office, he views the job as a larger version of the Poly Sci department he formerly headed. But Harald misunderstands the views and expectations of the faculty, particularly those of ambitious department chairs and senior professors who are determined to bring him down. In the midst of this upheaval his wife, Clarissa, leaves to pursue a theatrical career in New York. Then his brother informs him that their father is ill and hospitalized in northern Michigan. Also, Harald fears that a careless indiscretion with his secretary, Sarah, may become public. His troubles seem to be out of control and headed for disaster until an unexpected invitation arrives. A scheduled speaker withdraws from an important international meeting in Paris, and Harald is asked to substitute. He accepts the invitation and asks Sarah to go with him. When Sarah shows up in London with her boyfriend, the diving coach from the college, Harald knows he has been duped and he flees to Paris. At the meeting he encounters Chicory Higgins, an attractive and competent Native American woman, and he stumbles into a new fantasy. And so it goes, with twists and turns to the very last page. As the cover image suggests, the story is a total immersion experience. Contributor Bio:  Long, Dixon DIXON LONG moved to the San Francisco Bay area after many years as a professor of political science and dean at Case Western Reserve University. In addition to writing, he keeps honeybees and prays for their survival. Dixon has published several novels, available on Amazon.com. The first, Brothers, a family drama that moves among New York, Tokyo, Paris and Provence, was published in 2001. A Very Rich Man, the story of a wealthy, dysfunctional family, appeared in 2007. An international political thriller, Running Without Lights, came out in 2010. His collection of short stories and a novella, Weekend in the Luberon, followed in 2012. Love Maybe, in 2013, traces the emotional evolution of a man whose wife leaves him for a woman. And finally, Sea of Troubles, also 2013, follows the fortunes of an ambitious college president who makes every conceivable mistake. Dixon is also co-author of Markets of Provence (HarperCollins, 1996) and Markets of Paris (2d ed., 2012), a comprehensive guide to open-air food markets as well as markets for crafts, books, prints, art, antiques, clothing, fabrics and more.