LONE
STAR LITERARY LIFE BLOG TOURS
presents
THE PRISON
TRILOGY
by Glen Aaron
Summary of Book 1 of The Prison Trilogy -- Observer:
The Ronnie Lee and Jackie Bancroft Spencer Morgan Story, a tale of people,
greed, envy, manipulation... even crime!
When Jackie Bancroft's husband died in 1952, he left her an heiress to the income and value of The Wall Street Journal and one of the wealthier women in America. Almost 50 years later, Jackie would marry Ronnie Lee Morgan, a 50-year old gay interior decorator. Morgan was one of many clients in the active law practice of author Glen Aaron. This unusual marriage lasted until Jackie's mysterious death five years later. Throughout that period, Aaron became entwined in the personal lives and demands of the couple, along with handling many of their legal affairs. The huge money and property distributions made by Jackie to her husband, designed and handled by Aaron, resulted in a two-year federal prison sentence for Aaron. The first book in the trilogy is that story.
THE OTHER TWO BOOKS IN THE SERIES:
"Jackie had
built an invisible shield. How she felt, who she was deep inside, was insulated
by what might be called "Jackie logic." In a personal encounter, she
could be brutally blunt by pointing out a physical imperfection or character
defect of the person she was talking to. "You're too fat. You should do
something about it." "You're not my friend. You just want my
money." She used innumerable clichés and platitudes for defensive
purposes, designed to throw the other person off their game. Over the years,
her repertoire grew with use. That "devil take the hindmost" attitude
she had had since childhood gave her the confidence to not care what people
thought of her. It was they who were after her, not she who was after them. On
occasion, she would joke with me that this aspect of her personality was
because her parents were first cousins.
"Wealth,
extreme wealth, attracts a type of court, as in the days of Louis XIV, that
some of these people want to be a part of. It gives them meaning to be seen
rubbing shoulders with others of the coterie. Even if the Queen, in this case,
Jackie, is not present, there is a sense of acceptance when the court is in
session, each person wondering about the others’ special relationship with
Jackie. Is it more special, more personal than theirs? This is the social
effect of it: The pushing and crowding for pecking-order position, to be that
special one who knows the lady just a little better than the next, or to
casually say, "When I was having dinner with Jackie the other night…,"
or to drop some other offhand remark indicating one's special privilege with
Jackie. None of this is so much about money as it is about being accepted and
part of an honored, moneyed circle. To the social elite, real or imagined, you
are known by the clubs to which you belong and those with whom you associate.
If you can claim a special or private relationship with a powerful, rich, or
influential person, then you are one up on the rest of the group. You are who
your friends are, whether they are really your friends or not."
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Author Glen Aaron
Glen writes both fiction and nonfiction from his
forty-year career and experience as a trial lawyer and consultant in
international business and banking.
His nonfiction work as the observer in The
Prison Trilogy tells the tales, in chronological order, of how he came to
be a lawyer for a Wall Street Journal
heiress and her gay husband, and how that representation landed him in federal
prison. That is the first in The Trilogy. The second book tells the story of
his cellmate, Colonel George Trofimoff, serving life for spying for the KGB.
The final book of The Trilogy describes the prisoners, Glen's experiences and
takes a hard look at the American criminal justice system.
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