The Broken Mask is a novel of
time and torment, from the Great Depression to the computer revolution. An epic
drama that illustrates the agony that each life depicted must endure and how
each does, or does not, overcome their personal successes and tragedies. The
scope of the saga sweeps across the country allowing the reader an opportunity
to vividly imagine the beautiful grandeur.

The Broken Mask tells about
families and relationships-about generations of blood connections, about a
relationship between a boy and his father, his mother, and his grandparents.
About two men with diverse backgrounds, and the pain and suffering each must
endure as the cards of life are dealt to each.

Dirk Wescott
was raised in a poor family in Oil City,
a small town in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California. While Matthew
Purcell Jr. was born to an affluent family in Santa Rosa, a moderate size city
fifty miles north of San Francisco. Matt and Dirk are destined to clash.

Book I details Dirk and his
family .The plot details their lives and the personal misery Dirk suffers
triggered by the tragic death of his father and his mother's illicit behavior.

Book II tells of Matt, his
family, and his conflict with Dirk. Throughout the novel Matt tries to do more
for Dirk, and it isn't until Dirk's tragic death that Matt was finally set free
from the burden of Dirk Wescott and his tragic life.

While Dirk Wescott
is overcome by the psychosis brought on by his jealousy of Matt and elements in
his upbringing that drive him to violence. Dirk is intelligent, athletic, and
an excellent manipulator people until the walls come crashing down.

Will the reader pity Dirk? Or be
jealous of Matt, as is Dirk? Now, I present to you a saga of American life
centered on the lives of two young men.

Dirk Wescott
and Matthew Purcell Jr. are not living beings, nor
have they ever been alive. But, it has been my pleasure to meet and cavort
about with life's splen