The Emperor of Ocean Park – Audiobook Online
“The Emperor of Ocean Park” is a novel about a former professor named Talcott Garland who becomes embroiled in a complex web of familial and political intrigue in Elm Harbor, a fictional suburb of New England. Following the death of his father, an esteemed federal judge with connections to the African-American elite, Talcott is thrust into a world of secret societies, powerful political figures, and long-held family secrets. As he delves deeper into his father’s mysterious past and attempts to reconcile with his estranged wife and children, Talcott must come to terms with his own deeply held beliefs and loyalties. The novel explores themes of race, class, and power, and is both a thrilling legal drama and a poignant family saga.
- The Emperor of Ocean Park
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
An extraordinary debut of fiction: a massive, moving suspense novel that is at the same time a brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the east coast’s upper-class African-American society – long-standing families vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard – and the inner circle of a school. Laws of the Ivy League. It tells the story of a complicated family with a unique, captivating connection to crime land.
The emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died suddenly. An intelligent legal mind, conservative and notoriously controversial, Judge Garland has more enemies than friends. Years ago, he won a judge’s highest award: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination fell to scandal. The humiliating defeat had become a personal pain, one from which he could never recover.
But now the Judge’s death raises even more questions – and it appears to be leading to a second, even more gruesome scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He left a strange message to his son Talcott, a law professor at a large university, entrusting him with “the arrangement” – a mysterious puzzle that only Talcott can solve, and only by unearthing the vagaries of his father’s past. When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott – an outspoken, outspoken man who is almost too self-proclaimed a doer – has to risk his career, kiss and even his own life, following the clues his father left him.
Complicated, brilliantly written, often scathingly humorous, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a successful work of fiction, filled with characters and incidents – a skillfully woven tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murders, integrity tested, and justice horribly wrong.
Fast paced and suspenseful. Sometimes it’s a little hard to tell if I’m in the ‘now’ or in the flashback but it grabbed me from the start and held me tight.
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