The Chains of Honor

Boston: Rival Publications, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear; Signed and inscribed on the title page; Allen Decker is an athlete and an optimist from a small town in upstate New York. Attending college on a football scholarship, he encounters the cruel forces of privilege among his fellows and suffers the machinations of a callow, covetous girl—but he maintains the courage of his convictions. Later, Deck volunteers to serve his country in WWII and ships out, only to have his past find him, worlds away, in a jeep convoy on the Burma Road.Deck contends with violence, suffering, duplicity, and loss as he navigates the affections of three unforgettable women. When he is finally faced with the darkest possibilities of human nature, manifest in the woman he believes he loves, he is shocked out of what is left of his naiveté and left in an existential stupor.Just when he seems irrevocably lost, Deck returns home, where he is saved by a love he, as a younger man, had failed to honor.