Book About Under the Table Dynasty

## Disambiguation

The "Book About Under the Table Dynasty" is a yet undefined novel in the FOG universe about a Southern United States family of black market dealers who have a legacy selling people, personnel services, and other dark market services, and are successful for generations, until one of the son's questions the morality of what his family is known for and fights against his own.

## Summary

The "Book..." was originally a concept by the author completely separate from the FOG universe, but may be included in time. The story centers around a rough biker-gang like family with Southern class that has a dynasty in selling services such as the follwing: career-sabotage services, illegal business related services, and things like false-witnesses, body guard protection, intimidation and blackmail services, and even assassinations. They are one of several businesses that serve organized crime lords.

One of their sons, Rob, decides he doesn't want to work for the family business, and this creates a fued. In the end he fights against his family. He takes his cadillac and travels across the country from Georgia to San Francisco to meet up with a business connection and friend named Rodrigo Valesquez.

## Plot

After coming to San Francisco, Rodrigo connects Bo to the local police force. Bo is interested in getting police help to stop his family from murdering an entire low middle class family that has uncovered the crimes of the Holbrook family, but Rob is in love with one of the daughters (who is 15).

Rodrigo is a former police deputy, but no longer works for them--however he still has undercover ties with the police and uses them to help his friends moreso than any business related reasons. Hence, he's willing to help Rob but only if Rob makes deal, which he already has in mind. He's going to use his own connections to end Ray's probation and clear his record.

Initially, Bo's closest business partner and cousin, Eagle McGuire, is against him turning against his family's enterprise--even though he is also tired of killing people and working under the table. His initial disgust with his lifestyle is shown when he and Bo take a captive to be executed. Bo voices his desire to leave the business and Eagle shoots back. But basically he feels the same. After Bo goes to San Francisco, Eagle has to keep his mouth shut and keep working for Wilson Sr. but eventually joins Bo.

Before leaving Georgia Bo waits out for the assault on the Sacchs, killing the assassins, one of which is a well known family friend. He gets them escorted north to Canada.

## Themes

The main internal conflict, not only in regard to Bo Wilson but also the story as a whole is the concept of breaking away from family in a very real way, possibly even betrayal, for something personal or greater. For Bo it's personal with Bailey Sacchs. Others in the family will have similar conflict, resulting in an eventual break up as a result of the feud.￼ A theme behind this is an idea that Bo and family live near a river that serves as a barrier line for their land, and Bo often rides up to that river on his bike as a child and looks over it, wondering how it is on the other side. This is inspired by Gavin Degraw's song "Face the River." The metaphor here is that Bo eventually has to "face the river he cannot cross," the river representing the barrier between being tied to his family and free from his prison of gang like work; and of course "facing the river" means pushing against a current, going upward, which is what he'd be doing if he become an enemy of his family and it's dynasty. It may even be the case that, in the distance, he can see Bailey on her property or whatever.

This may have to be altered as an idea, because it requires a reason that Bo would dislike his family as a child, which isn't really connected to his refusal to kill the Sacchs or his frustration with the work he does.

### Bo Isn't In Love with Bailey Tremain/Sacchs But It Develops

I have an idea to make Bo and Bailey be in a situation to where they have to work with each other to get out of a situation. Somehow they would be pushed into this situation, and this would be before Bo even knows who Bailey is. Since Bailey is a mechanic, they could be stuck somewhere that will require them to use these skills. Bo would probably have a basic understanding of mechanics, but Bailey is more attuned to it. So, perhaps Bo is totally fine with the Sandersons wanting to kill the Tremains and take Bailey's life insurance payment or whatever, but then changes his mind after this situation. At this point, Bo would either have a girlfriend or just be a bachelor; their romance would develop slowly. Of course, since Bailey is 15 and Bo is in his late thirties, I could try to direct the reader to think their relationship isn't developing in the way it is.