Spoof

About the Book

Spoof is the story of the lives of two men who are identical twins. Terry Lickliter and his brother Tom were minor characters in Illusive Innocence, my first novel. In Spoof both men are in their late forty’s. Terry worked in Silicon Valley until the mid-nineties and made a fortune when his company sold out to a high tech giant. He moved to Grand Haven Michigan and built two large houses on Lake Michigan, a Victorian with an attached lighthouse and a Tudor. Tom Lickliter resided in Florida and worked as an Electrician and moved back to Michigan to join his brother. The two brothers had been living twenty-eight hundred miles apart. Terry and his wife Kristine (a true San Franciscan) are rich and Tom and his wife Monique (a southern belle born in Savannah, Georgia) are middle class citizens. The gift of a quarter-million dollar Tudor on lake Michigan is a lot for Tom and his wife Monique to accept. Tom is sterile but Terry fathers his children. Together the men open a small business but work to create a very successful international business. Sudden wealth changes their lives. From Sailing Lake Michigan and the Pacific to the power of a corporate boardroom lives become entrapped into secrets and hysteria. Spoof is an adventurous story of couples, friends and business associates but also describes the secretive loving relationships of a charismatic man.

About the Author

Michael Patrick Tryon was born and raised in Michigan. He fished and hunted the waters and woods of southern Michigan for many years. He was raised by his step father Theodore Aslin (deceased) who was a Native American (Chippewa) and served as a Marine in South Korea. Michael was a Seabee Diver (NEC 5345) in the U.S. Navy. He was the Senior Diver on three large projects in the Seabee’s. First, the widening of the waterway by removing much of the old highway 1 bridge on the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. Second, the creation of a seven-acre kelp bed off the southeast tip of San Clemente Island in the open ocean. Third, the removal of 3000 creosote soaked pilings on Yerba Buena Island on San Francisco Bay. Michael was a P.A.D.I. scuba diving instructor and taught diving in California and Bermuda. He Worked in the HVAC&R trade for 45 years and has retired. He was an avid sailor on his Islander 36, for many years. He sailed the pacific from San Diego to San Francisco. He was the Commodore of the Marina Bay Yacht Club for six years. He wrote many articles for MBYC in their newsletter The Signal. Michael teaches HVAC&R part time to members of his union in the San Francisco Bay Area. He plays 18 holes of golf once a week with his friend Brian Leong. His other books published by Authorhouse are Illusive Innocence and Seabee Diver. He resides with his wife Janice in Stockton, California.