Opulence Among Us

About the Book

This is a story about an amazing group of friends that set out to change the world one person at a time. They were all extremely wealthy through hard work or inheritance. They all figure that they can only drive one car at a time and live in one house at a time and everything else is really not needed. The ten friends set out to change thousands of people’s lives in this country. They would pick a downtrodden neighborhood and breathe life into it by paving the streets, fixing all existing homes, giving the people good paying jobs, and paying off all their outstanding debt. These poor people who could barely feed their kids would now have a place they were proud to call home. They paid their taxes and lived their lives. The friends branched out to adjoining communities and were met with the same love and admiration that they enjoyed enhancing lives in the first neighborhood. The group would branch out and soon they have renovated nearly an entire county until corrupt politicians and drug lords attempt to put a stop to these good deeds because it was removing the slums that these entities rely on to do business.

About the Author

Gary D. Henry spent over twenty years in the environmental field and another fifteen years as a Government contractor. That is where he found the desire to write. As a technical writer for many of these years, he has written countless reports regarding testing procedures and testing results presented to Government agencies. Recently, he has had the desire to write stories. This came from a short story written about Alzheimer’s disease, which claimed the life of his father, Ray Henry in early 2009. The short story was given to Leeza Gibbons at her request for her to use with a visual piece that she was planning. His first six novels being “The Westward Journey of the Nebraskan Wind,” “The Castle Dark of Upstate,” “A life Measured by the Minute” “Opulence Among Us” “The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier”, “The Books of James C. Patch: Returning” are presently published and available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and many other online outlets. His eighth novel “Abraham Markem and the Amazing White Dog” and “Legacy of the Unsung” is presently in the publication phase and will be available soon. He is presently writing his ninth novel, the third in the Jim Patch series, to be completed in early August 2010.