The Wisdom Knot

Professor Ron Gibbons, specialist in Ghana, Africa, joins a small Virginia university to escape a busted marriage, big-university politics, and memories of a plane crash that killed his parents. Gifted as a psychic Beth Higgins is a Vietnamese girl brought to the U. S. as a child; now 25, she’s Ron’s teaching assistant. Both she and secretary Laura Smith have designs on Ron. Bascom Gerald Winfield III, son of a late tobacco king., micro-manages Carol University, He plots to recoup losses in the tobacco market by exploiting Africa. Prentice Charles, African American professor fighting problems of unwed black mothers, mistrusts Bascom. African American detective Big Bill Angel pulls in the FBI to investigate serial murders, a kidnapping, and three church bombings.