JUNIPER TOWN

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Juniper Town" is the story of a small high desert 1950s town that parallels the growth of young Steve White with the mission of two influential men from the East, Robert Pruitt, a banker, and Axel Baker, an attorney. During his school years young Steve experiences, a bullying nemesis, a secret puppy love for the girl next door, a cold-hearted mother who loves his older brother more, a friend tormented by the abuse of a priest, angst about the Russians and nuclear war, and average grades and talents amidst the backdrop of this nostalgic, quintessential American era. Likewise, Pruitt and Baker pursue their task, sponsored by a powerful, quasi-secret society from the East, to establish effective yet subtle control of the town's economy and credit, press, labor force, and politics, in a seamless conspiracy of manipulation. Opposing them is the owner of the local lumber mill, J. T. Holbrook, heretofore the town's most powerful, wealthy, and influential citizen, and Conn Sol, a mysterious new realtor in town some people refer to as 'Ameran, ' an allegedly non-human race which possesses unusual physical and emotional strengths. "Juniper Town" develops through the interaction of Steve White and his young friends: Dred Sol, Conn Sol's Ameran son, Bill Bone, Steve's life-long nemesis, Darlene Dickinson, Steve's unfulfilled love, Jackie Robinson, Steve's disillusioned Negro friend, Kenny Young, the abused altar boy, Gary Sanders, the loud mouth wise guy, with the adult players in the story: Robert Pruitt and Axel Baker, co-conspirators who install local nice guy Marion Strutt as their lackey mayor, J. T. Holbrook, the lumber king knocked down to size by blackmail, Conn Sol, the Ameran operator whose task is to derail Pruitt and Baker, Virl Saeger, Steve's cowboy friend and mentor, Skip Sanders, shady lumber salesman at the mill, Mary White, Steve's mother who struggles to endure the death of her oldest son Chuck in Korea, the Negro Robinsons and Crowes, the