Book Details
About The Author- James H. Cobb
The Book
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil
and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust.
St. Matthew, 5. 45
For those of us who have never traveled the paths of the stealthy and profit-making moguls, here is a book that finally shows the glory, the anguish—and the lesson.
What is No One Knows the Son?
No One Knows the Son presents the drive of modern man in his quest to reach higher material plateaus, and given the opportunity, how life’s excesses and one’s inner being collide to result in the inevitable failure;how temptation for all that is just beyond one’s rightful reach can bring a greedy man to his knees. But No One Knows the Son goes further still. This novel rips through the mold of the rise and fall and then the end. It goes beyond the sad end, and into the new beginning, filled with hope and promise of a genuine and solidly built future.
Because No One Knows the Son is based on a true, enduring story, the characters and situations benefit from reality, and possess a built-in capacity for growth. The story features real places from the southern half of the United States to the Netherlands, and the rich Mediterranean coast of Spain. It bathes the reader in the warm sands of the Spanish beaches, and the cutting icy wind of a Netherlands winter port.
But driving this book most of all, is a constant flow of well-told compelling events, from the very first page, in which Jamie is born, an unwanted child to his drug addicted, manic-depressive mother, fast forwarding to his introduction after 20 years, to his Dutch father, whose
business appears to be flourishing well beyond Jamie’s imagination, and certainly beyond his own $4-an-hour carwash job. His impending fatherhood and a sudden introduction to real life Christianity serve to heighten the drama and increase the emotional burden Jamie carries as he sets out to meet his wealthy, mysterious, foreign father.
There is not a slow moment throughout the story, which is separated and labeled with three distinct parts; Innocence, Criminality, and Coming of Age.