Master of the Estate

Master Of The Estate Is A Riveting And Suspenseful Imbroglio Of Intrigues Characters And Literary Traditions All Evolving Around The Search For Possession Of An Ancient Egyptian Scarab And A Treasure Believed To Be Buried Somewhere On The Sanchez Estate. This Gothic Mansion Outside New Orleans Louisiana Is Surrounded By A Swamp Haunted By Treasure-Hunters Who Seek To Cancel Each Other Out And A Mysterious Creature From Out Of Space And Time. The Protagonist Of The Story Predestined To Host The Ancient Amulet Is A Former Heroin Addict Whom We First See In Atlanta In An Abandoned House That He Calls His. The Joy Of His First Addiction-Free Day Is Shattered By Shootings Of Rival Cutthroats That Rattle His Dwelling. The Text Enacts A Historical Archaeology That Takes The Reader From The Post-Civil Rights Era In America To Ancient Egyptian Civilization. This Brilliantly Told Story Also Stages A Palimpsest Of Literary Paradigms Including Magical Realism Postmodernism The Detective Story (In Which Worthy Would Be The Action Hero) And The Picaresque Novel To Cite Only A Few. Furthermore The Narrator Deftly Cites The Works Of William Shakespeare John Milton Francis Bacon Ralph Waldo Emerson Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington W. E. B Du Bois Marcus Garvey And Many Others.