Berlin Cantata (23 page)

The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement's Cove, Maine – a town in which the mansion-like ‘cottages' of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. When a misunderstanding between the couple and their new neighbors arises, a chain of events is set in motion that pits the new rich against those just scraping by, outsider against old-timer, in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe. Taut, swift, and startling,
Adam the King
depicts the inexorability of fate against the backdrop of the money-mad '90s.