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Title: Sunday in the Park with George

Author: Francis Hamit

Narrator: Michael Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-12

Publisher: Brass Cannon Books

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On a bright sunny day in a public park two security officers encounter problems, tragedy and someone with psychic abilities.

Captain Haliday has one other officer and needs six. The client is a jerk. There is a "no dog" policy that creates friction with patrons, some of whom have been drinking... and then a little boy goes missing....

Members Reviews:

You'd typically think nothing much happens during the day...

...in the life of a security professional, but don't let titles fool you, chap. This ain't no typical Sunday, and these ain't your garden variety oafish security types, either, bubs.

"Sunday in the Park with George" is a whippersnapper-esque takeoff on the eponymous Sondheim masterwork telling of a hellish day a one Captain Jack Halliday's life. Halliday's been relegated to four months of uncharacteristic busyness as a security captain (two chevrons) for an Iowan patrol outfit as part of his doctoral research in the "Insitutional Anthropology" field, as he describes. What should typically be a routine series of responsibilities becomes hell on wheels, literally, over the span of one hundred and twenty days. Halliday's been promoted to the captain's chair, and coincidentally, all hell has suddenly broken loose. Halliday begins thinking to himself that the gods have it in for him. Karmically-speaking, he thinks he's cursed.

Unfrotunately for Jack, he's a man on a mission in the throes of his degree program, and our Captain Jack's decided the most efficient means of taking in that critical raw data to assist him in rendering a scholar's opinion on the subject matter is only via a Strasberg-ish/Stanislavski-ian "method" approach to the area. By placing himself in the thick and swirl of it all, by interacting closely with his test subjects in a way that no mere bookish keyster-on-the-seat treatment can, the good 'Cap believes he shall come to know of its rolling vicissitudes like few others do.

It's a theory, and hey, even in the world of academe you've got to take a shot.

Joining him on his noble quest is the now-and-again bumbling shlemiel, the lovable Lieutenant George. Stalwart, unassuming, and for the most part taciturn, Georgie Porgie Pudding Pie has been working like a bad robot for the past thirty-two days straight without a single intervening day off to take a chill pill. As we discover, something else has been going on across town - a wildcat strike, no less, has broken out and gobbled up their firm, Centurion's, ostensibly available manpower (a job normally requiring a deuce of guards now has claim over nearly a dozen, armed somewhat to the teeth, but sans guns). He doesn't normally work the amusement park circuit, neither George nor our good Captain do, but Captain Jack has been regrettably shoehorned into running the show on this fine Sunday morning, of all possible days, and George is his running mate. Dedication being dedication, George is a man of his word. Besides, he isn't to be dissuaded now, especially as overtime pay is in the offing. Lest we forget, he's been working for over a month straight.

Suddenly, a real-life tragedy is in the making. And the scene explodes.