The Life of Henry James: First Book of the Trilogy
James H Bragg
After University, Henry followed his father, Lord David James, into investment banking. Travelling around the world on a regular basis, to see his clients, and never once does he lose them any money. He made a very good life for himself, becoming a self-made multi-millionaire. He likes good quality cars and his Malö Yacht. He is very good at several sports, cricket, golf, shooting, cross country running and horse riding.
There is a very good description of his sister's wedding, with all the pomp and ceremony of the aristocracy.
The houses he purchases and the good things he does for people, makes him every bodies friend. He finds it very easy to make female friends, however, he only has a few male friends.
What he does not want is to get involved with a gold digger, and guards against that. He is very competitive and accepts challenges at swimming and dancing.
Henry gets very close to two ladies. Both Americans, he proposes to one of them, and the other has a life-threatening problem. Henry has to ask favours of his family and friends, so he can save her life. He finally gets engaged to a beautiful Swedish lady, but due to a serious problem, the wedding has to be cancelled. They both start their own projects. Annika's starts the building a school in Nicaragua, and Henry starts looking for a world war two airfield, so he can start his own project, the restoration of ww2 aircraft.
Although it is a fictional story, there is a lot of factual information in this book. The story has many twists and turns, with the ending, setting the reader up for book two of the trilogy.
The three books of the trilogy follow the life of Henry James, starting when he was a young man at school. It follows his life telling the reader all about the ladies he loves. All the new businesses he starts up, to help friends and local people. He is a kind and considerate man and is loved by everybody that works for him. Henry makes friends in high places and he is helped by many of those friends over the books.
He shows in the second book just what he is prepared to do if you harm one of his friends. He sets up a protection team to cover all the friends that work for him, and they do what they have to do. The restoration of aircraft goes very well, with more and more being found and renovated.
In the third book, he has a serious problem and goes missing; he is found, however; it takes a very long time for him to get back to the Henry that everybody knew. Annika puts her wedding plans together for the second time, and it seems nothing will stop the wedding this time.
But life is not always kind to the good guys, which gives a dramatic ending in book three of the trilogy.