Battle of Wits

About the Book

His rise in wealth and power was due to his hard work, his ingenuity. Along the way he had lost his boyhood friends by.divorcing a good wife with three children to marry a young and pretty women, giving up his religion. Now he finds his rise in wealth, which his ambition craves, being limited by the Lodge, a fraternity of old line WASP aristrocrats controlled by a spider-like patrician. He had joined the Lodge when he had divorced his wife to further his ambition. At the funeral of an old friend he comes again into the orbit of his old friends, and seeing them and their comraderie makes him question his life. Will he change?

About the Author

J. T. Elias grew up and educated in Wilkes Barre, PA. After a year at Loyola College in Baltimore, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Flying thirty missions over Germany, wounded once, awarded the DFC, Purple Heart, six Air Medals and others. Discharged, he went into business, then sold all, went to Europe for six months, visiting Paris, England and Ireland where he met his future wife. They had four children, who give him his greatest joy, travels to New York, California and Spain to see them and his granchildren. Elias has published five novels, two plays produced in New York, and continues to write at his home in Nanticoke, PA.