Real Presence

About the Book

You lined the present up with the past through stories, and if you could get those times into line, one with the other, then there need be no future, just the present going on and endless stories. Happiness was the only danger.

About the Author

G.T. Dempsey was a career American diplomat, 1973-94, serving in Madrid, Vienna, Geneva, The Hague, Dublin, and Caracas, and in the U.S. Army, 1965-68. He was educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford. He has previously published the novels Due Reward, Real Presence, In Good Time, In Those Days, A Few Practical Things, Each to Each, and Different Ways and the non-fiction From the Embassy.