Emperor of America (1990)

by Richard Condon

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A nuclear device wipes out Washington DC. It can only have been the Royalists, led by the family of Colonel Chay Appleton, the US Army's greatest hero. They aim to become America's imperial dynasty, and Chay is now the obvious choice to run the country.

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Emperor of America

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Emperor of America

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1990

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Caesare (Chay) Appleton (Chay)

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"And were you pleased?" they asked Helen in Hell.
"Pleased?" answered she, "when all Troy's towers fell;
And dead were Priam's sons, and lost his throne?
And such a war was fought as none had known;
And even the gods took part; and all because
Of me alone! Pleased?

I should say I was!"

-- Lord Dunsany

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In fond / Memory of / Hal Matson

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In the late spring of 1988, four months before his thirty-eighth birthday, Colonel Caesare Appleton was having a really marvelous lunch in the best hotel in Almodovar, in southern Portugal, with a ravishing Portuguese woman who wore a red balibuntal hat and seemed to know all sorts of boring facts about American television shows and performers.

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A nuclear device wipes out Washington DC. It can only have been the Royalists, led by the family of Colonel Chay Appleton, the US Army's greatest hero. They aim to become America's imperial dynasty, and Chay is now the obvious choice to run the country.

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