Abercrombie And Underwood

Nick Underwood always harbored a desire to disclose the truth about his great grandfather's mysterious death in 1933. That obsession drove Nick to write his thesis on "The Tulsa Oil Boom". His research changed his life when he met Big Willie, a frail, lanky, ninety-eight year old black man hesitant to release the stories of his past. Willie Smith befriended Nick's great grandfather just before his death in 1933. "Nick raised a brow and stared across the table into Willie's gray eyes as Willie revealed a rough perspective of an early Tulsa boomtown. Was this just a black man's view of a white man's world, thought Nick as he imagined the stories Willie was telling. Willie rambled, moving the bite of catfish from one side of his mouth to the other, not missing a beat as he reminisced about his past. It all started when Roy Abercrombie spotted Willie's enormous black muscular body hanging from a rope. His skin glistened as the flames from the burning buildings bounced off his massive black body. His muscels twitched as the rope around his neck tightened while a group of white men struggled to lift his feet off the ground. Abercrombie yelled at the young men and told them that Willie worked for him. Willie stared down at the well dressed white man thinking an angel had appeared in his life. Later he would appear as the devil. The riot in 1921 changed his life forever. His life, and his familie's lives, were now intertwined for three generations with Abercrombie's and a man named Charles Underwood. Willie worked for Tulsa oilman Roy Abercrombie until his untimely death several years later during a bank robbery. Tough times called for tough people, and Abercrombie needed a big strong bodyguard on his payroll. Willie was just the man." Nick's research quickly focused on Abercrombie's mob boss lifestyle. Willie described him as a large brawny well dressed man with a pencil thin mustache. Abercrombie ruthlessly acquired oil leases back in the 20's using any means necessary. After the stock market plunged, Abercrombie stole Nick's great grandfather's idea of getting the oil magnates investments out of the uninsured banks and the volatile stock market, and investing in raw gold. Abercrombie controlled the Midwest Oil Consortium, which owned a fortune in gold stored in vaults located in the tunnels beneath downtown Tulsa. When the Midwest Oil Consortium was eventually closed, eighteen bricks of gold were missing, and Big Willie figured it had to be Abercrombie.Pumped up after hearing the story of the missing fortune, Lamont, Willie's great grandson, teamed up with Nick to find the missing gold. Ray Abercrombie, a mirror image of his grandfather, manipulated Nick and Lamont while using them to find and recover the missing gold he had sought for years. His ruthless tactics brought murder, arson, and kidnapping to their lives, eventually making them wish they had never gotten involved. The adventure ends when Nick discovers a tarnished bronze plaque mounted on the side of his great grandparent's mausoleum. He shivered as he read it for the first time in his life. He realized that Roy Abercrombie donated the mausoleum after his great grandfather's death. Nick's chest pounded as he glared at the two large capital letters emanating from the massive plaque as if they were on a 3D movie screen; AU. He realized Roy Abercrombie used his great grandfather's death to hide the stolen gold where it would be the least expected.

• | Author: Dekker Newman
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 681 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1522086226
• | ISBN-13: 9781522086222