Chapter 28
3:30 PM
October 30, 1942
Office of the President
Monarch Industries
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Dan Monarch sat behind the big mahogany desk staring at the silent telephone. He’d finished the most important call of his long and distinguished life. After receiving the news, the current patriarch of the Monarch dynasty had placed the handset down in its cradle.
Dan had expected this call for several weeks. He thought he was ready. But can you ever prepare for the end of the world? The cancer had metastasized. It was only a question of time and not very much of that.
His doctor said that he had eight or nine weeks, maybe as many as 12 to 15, before they’d begin sedating him so strongly that he’d cease to function. He’d be dead in six months. If he survived longer, the pain or th
