"Talion". . . Retaliation . . . Revenge - a dish here served 118 years cold; grand
child kidnaped by revenging grand child; retaliation sought for outrage inflicted;
and in the swirl, Samuel F.B. Morse, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, injury,
President Chester Arthur, Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt, revenge, Samuel
Gompers, William Randolph Hearst manifest destiny, all butting up against a
20th Century Mafi a Don, a suave criminal lawyer, the New York City police,
Wall Street,- a riveting story spanning America from the industrial revolution,
the dawning of America as a world power, two presidential assassinations, the
machinations that resulted in the Panama Canal, the sexual revolution, and a
modern woman, head of a bustling Wall Street law firm, . . . buried alive.
