Going Home Ebook Tooltip Ebooks kunnen worden gelezen op uw computer en op daarvoor geschikte e-readers. A Return to Golden Mycenae

Do recollections from a past life animate a person in the present? If they do, what does that mean about our lives? About us? This novel is a political thriller set in the present. Meanwhile the central character remembers fighting in the Greek war against Troy during the Bronze Age.

Post-Obama’s interregnum, Dan Hacek, retired small-business owner and well married to a physician, forms a boutique political party in Reno, Nevada, and calls it the Conservative-Reform Party. To amplify the party’s platform Dan is persuaded to stand as the party’s candidate for President of the United States. He gets traction from the cogent platform—arrest global-climate change and brake runaway U. S. government spending—and he is passionate about it.

Collaterally Dan is beset by increasingly frequent and vivid memories—they can’t be dreams—of commanding Agamemnon’s chariot corps in the Mycenaean Greek expedition against the citadel of Troy. As recalled by Dan, skirmishes are lethal, nights breed extinction. The Cause is hopeless. Finally Amphilochus—Dan—counsels his king to use guile and gold to slip Greek horsemen inside the walls of Ilios (Troy). At this they succeed famously.

The stories—which mirror each other, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes subliminally—meld by the end of the novel.

At base the novel is about fulfilling human existence—why and how. Why take on the U. S. political establishment? Why take on the mighty Hittite empire at Troy? Beyond having to breathe, why do anything? Going Home shows how we find answers.

About the Author

Dennis Frank Macek (MA-chek, a Czech name) is a former full-time college-English teacher (University of Texas at El Paso, University of Maryland Overseas Division), U. S. government operative (California), and now a retired HVAC mechanic-technician from the University of Texas at Austin. His degrees are from Marquette University and the University of Arizona.

Macek is married to Judith Kay Wilson, a professor of literacy at the University of Nebraska. They live in Lincoln, Nebraska, and practice Zen Buddhism and Transcendental Meditation.

Macek has authored A Rose from Charlie and Marie (on Amazon.com), which Kirkus Reviews calls “a metaphorically charged spy tale . . . . A multifaceted meditation on the ephemeral nature of existence, doubling as an equally intricate espionage thriller.” Clarion Reviews rates it four stars and comments on its readability and uniqueness.

The apotheosis of life imitating art, Macek stood for the U. S. Senate as a Nonpartisan in 2014 and again in 2018 as a “pragmatic, realistic Republican.” This novel, Going Home (A Return to Golden Mycenae), “I wrote to energize readers to live vitally by realizing that our nature shows us to be an essential element of cosmic reality (much like a drop of sea water is part of an ocean). We needn't know the why of this, nor can we. But we can live accordingly."