LAKE VIEW TERRACE, Calif., May 21, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- In his debut novel, A Perfect World (A Perry Richards Novel), (now available through AuthorHouse), Bernard Alexander McNealy invades the personal and professional lives of Perry and Felicia Richards and unleashes a story of turmoil and confusion.
Perry and Felicia, a beautiful, black, Christian couple are living the American dream. Perry is slated to be the director of a public interest law firm, and Felicia is an exquisite, bright therapist who seems selfless and dedicated to their young daughters and their marriage.
Preparing to take the reigns at the law firm, Perry encounters opposition from a cadre of scheming colleagues who are resentful of his outspokenness, litigations skills, social grace and most of all, his black ethnicity. He takes it upon himself to restore the law firm to its past dignity and sets himself on a course to nullify anyone in his way. He soon finds out, however, that his opposition has destructive and treacherous tentacles hidden from view.
Privately, the seemingly perfect couple is at a crossroads in their marriage. When Felicia vanishes while traveling to join Perry at their vacation cabin, Perry is left with unanswered questions. Was it foul play or an affair? Did she leave him? To find her, Perry's investigation takes him to Chicago where he discovers that the woman he knows as Felicia was a composite character built partly of fact and partly of fiction. As he follows the clues, he becomes aware that there are people willing to go to extreme, even deadly, measures to keep his wife's secret.
Perry's devoted, rich colleague and traveling companion, Charleston Bradley, wants to conquer Perry's heart and let Felicia remain a haunting illusion. Searching for truth, Perry must surmount infidelity as well as racial and social politics.
A Perfect World is a modern-day classic with glamorous, fashionable women and handsome, masculine men displaying old fashioned mores of fidelity and loyalty.
McNealy was born in Georgia and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he attended law school. He was a litigation specialist and component director at a legal aid firm. He is also a columnist for a community newspaper. He and his wife have two daughters and two grandchildren. Two new books in the "Perry Richards" series are scheduled for release later this year.
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