THE LUCKY UNBORN
             a new novel by Kenneth S. Most

London: Adelphi Press, 1995, 214 pp. (only available in US
from author)

A page-turner "the best short novel since The Bridge of 
San Luis Rey"(the author.)

The story is narrated by the protagonist, Geoffrey Strager,
who teaches English literature at an American University. He
has disappeared, leaving a manuscript that has been edited 
for publication by a colleague. An immigrant from the UK, now
living in Miami, his conventional life is turned upside down 
by an extra-marital affair with a woman he knew in
London, thirty years before.

His teenage daughter is hospitalized with a drug overdose and
he himself is kidnapped by the husband of his mistress, a man
involved in the drug trade. The abduction results not from 
jealousy, but from a remark Geoffrey made to his mistress 
after being visited by a DEA agent, who tried to warn him off. 
Released by his captor, Geoffrey returns to Miami
to find his daughter still in a coma, and discovers that the 
DEA agent has told his wife about the illicit affair; he is
unable to face the future.

The settings (wartime London, subtropical Miami, Bogota
and the Columbian countryside) are descriptively and 
atmospherically drawn, and the characters wholly credible. 
Geoffrey's psychological state is vividly depicted in a 
lecture he delivers on the personality and motivation of 
Othello, and the moral issues are discussed honestly
and non-judgmentally. The author's style is distinctive, 
lucid and coherent, and the story unfolds through direct 
narration unembellished by literary artifice or obscenity.

To obtain a copy, send $10 check or money order to:

Kenneth Most, 2623 Holly Springs Drive, Germantown, TN 38138.
For more information, e-mail me at Topmost@aol.com