We Can Only Hope for It

Harry Katzan Jr.

Description

In this set of episodes, the
General is called back to duty and plays only a minor role. Matt, Ashley, and Matt’s friend Harp Thomas share the responsibility for investigation a very unusual situation.
A professor’s wife dies.
Professor is grief stricken.
Professor talks to himself.
Professor interacts with another being (imagined)
Matt the main character figures out the situation
Reverse mathemnatics
Conference in Zurich
Matt solves the problem.
All ends well.

Sujets

• Espiritual
• Suiza
• Professor
• Federal government of the United States
• Mourning
• Spiritual
• Mathematics
• Emotion
• Beach
• Grief
• Cognitif
• Switzerland
• Life
• Death
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 05 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663253613
• Langue: English

Extrait

WE CAN ONLY HOPE FOR IT
 
 
Harry Katzan Jr.
 
 
 
 
 


WE CAN ONLY HOPE FOR IT
 
 
Copyright © 2023 Harry Katzan Jr.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5360-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5362-0 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5361-3 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910042
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 06/02/2023
Contents
Introduction
Main Characters in the Book
Part 1: Characters in the Story
Chapter 1Life is Good
Chapter 2Travel to Maui and Washington
Chapter 3Matt and the General Show Their Ability
Part 2: Things Start to Change
Chapter 4Change is Inevitable
Chapter 5A Personal Problem Emerges
Chapter 6Something Happened
Part 3: Background Information
Chapter 7Greg and Kat
Chapter 8The Beach Home
Chapter 9The First Visitor
Part 4: The Plot Thickens
Chapter 10Another Visitor to the Beach House
Chapter 11Harry and Matt Get Together
Chapter 12Greg and Matt Get Together
Part 5: The Search for a Solution
Chapter 13Devising a Plan
Chapter 14Arrangement in the Pentagon
Chapter 15At the Pentagon
Part 6: Back to Normal
Chapter 16To Zürich and Back
Chapter 17Switzerland
Chapter 18Home at Last
 
About This Book
About The Author
Books By Harry Katzan, Jr.

 
 
 
 
OTHER NOVELS BY HARRY KATZAN, JR.
A Matt and the General Series
Life is Good
Everything is Good
The Last Adventure
The Romeo Affair
Another Romeo Affair
*****

 
 
 
 
 
 
For Margaret, my best girl now and forever
with all my love
and Kathryn and Karen
Introduction
This novel, as in the previous fifteen stories in the series involving Matt and the General, with the assistance of their associates and friends, Matt and the General combine their efforts to solve important problems that involve the safety of the United States, along with problems in the domestic arena. In this instance. the book is set in the beautiful area of middle New Jersey, the United States in general, and in several foreign countries.
As in the previous novels, Matt Miller, who has a PhD degree from a prestigious university, and uses mathematical thinking and solid logic, along with the organizational ability of General Les Miller, his grandfather, to solve several major problems, recognized by the President and the Intelligence Director of the United States, as well as two local problems that require the wisdom of the team. The subject matter is supplanted with a historical sequence that described the origin of the General and other team members, by way of three introductory chapters that are interesting in their own right.
In this set of episodes, the General is called back to regular duty and only plays a minor role the episode. Matt, Ashley, and Matt’s university friend Harp Thomas share the responsibility for investigating a very unusual situation. You will be surprised and perhaps even determining that the problem is a problem.
The ideas herein change rapidly, but always in the scope of no violence, no sex, and no bad language. The book typifies the conventional “beach” read in that the subject matter can be read as five separate stories.
This is the sixteenth book in the Matt and the General series. The characters assume their dynamic personalities as in previous tales.
The Author,
June, 2023
Main Characters in the Book
The General – Les Miller. Former military General and Humanitarian. P-51 pilot and World War II hero.
Matthew (Matt) Miller – Professor of Mathematics. Grandson of the General. Sophisticated problem solver and strategist.
Ashley Wilson Miller – College friend of Matt Miller. Former Duchess of Bordeaux. Married to Matt Miller. Is a Receiver of the National Medal of Freedom.
Marguerite Purgoine - Retired creative writing Professor and an associate of the team. Known as Anna for some unknown reason. Wife of the General.
General Clark - Mark Clark. Former Four Star General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Appointed to be U.S. Director of Intelligence.
Kimberly Scott – The Intelligence specialist of the U.S.
Harry Steevens – Expert mathematician and former college friend of Matt Miller. Policeman in New Jersey.
Katherine Penelope Radford – Retired Queen of the United Kingdom and personal friend of the General.
Harp Thomas – Academic friend of Matt and professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich Switzerland.
Gregory Kacan – Matt’s and Harp’s thesis advisor. Retired professor.
Katarina Kacan – Gregory’s wife. Deceased in the story.
Harry Steevens – Friend of Matt’s and law enforcement officer.
Dr. Hutchinson - Military psychiatrist and project leader.
END OF CHARACTERS
Part 1
CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
Chapter 1
LIFE IS GOOD
It was a good golfing day in New Jersey. The sky was a deep blue without a cloud and there was a nip of coolness in the air. There was a slight breeze, and the deciduous trees that were losing their leaves were moving in unison. It was a Monday, and it seemed that if something were going to happen, it would happen on Monday. Matthew Miller, known as Matt practically everywhere, was a professor of mathematics at a prestigious university. He had his PhD degree that he had earned in only two years. He was an acknowledged scholar, and it was genuinely thought that he knew everything there was to know about mathematics. He had an academic relationship with fellow mathematicians all over the world.
On this particular Monday Matt had two classes, a graduate math class at 9:00 am and an undergrad math class at 10:00 am, followed by a meeting with his PhD candidate at 11:00 am. Then to top it off, he had a last minute departmental meeting at 1:00 pm. The General wanted to play a round of golf, so they scheduled it at 3:00 pm at the local Country Club of which Matt and his grandfather, known as the General, were members. Matt’s classes went well, as they always did. For each class, the students had to do a problem set due the next class. Each submission was evaluated by a teaching assistant and given a value of 1 through 5. Matt graded his own exams, since he was interested in how well his lectures were preparing the students for exams. Matt loved his classes, and his students liked him, usually because he had a gentleman’s attitude toward them. Matt was very supportive of his PhD candidate. Each semester, he had one grad course and one undergrad course and at least one PhD candidate to advise. As such, he was a math professor, and that was what he wanted to be. He was a full professor with tenure.
Matt’s life was relatively simple. He prepared his lectures, played golf with the General, studied math to keep abreast of new things, and did things with his wife Ashley, who was a professor at a local community college. Matt and Ashley usually hung out together, including time at the local driving range. They normally did not play together on golf courses, since Matt and the General were expert players, and Matt had been an NCAA golf champion.
The General is a retired Army Air Force 3-star general officer and had received a retired fourth star, so he had the rank of a 4-star general. A general is a general for life, so the General kept his ties to the active military world. Les Miller, the General, was a former P-51 pilot, as well as a B-29 and B-52 pilot, and had performed several honorable deeds, so he was usually known socially as the General.
The General has bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees, and was the founder of a political polling company that had made him a very wealthy man, who chose to use his wealth to help people. Matt and the General have completed several goodwill projects together.
At 1:00 pm, the math department Chairman had an unscheduled departmental meeting, to which the Dean and the department’s secretary were also invited. The department Chairman started the meeting, “Greetings everyone, and welcome to our guest Dean Fletcher. We are here to honor one of our colleagues, who is designated by the Board of Directors of the university as a Distinguished Scholar. Therefore, I would like to honor Matthew Miller with that award. He will receive a certificate, a staff assistant to assist in performing his research, a substantial raise in salary, and a reduced teaching load of one course.”
The people in the room clapped, and each member of the faculty gave an elegant fountain pen to Dr. Miller. A professor in the back of the room wondered where all of those beautiful fountain pens came from and finally realized that the university maintained several sets for future awards. In the celebrated movie A Beautiful Mind , a r