Book excerpt: Science Fiction Adventure novel about the life of an Oklahoma farm boy set three hundred years into the future after mankind has already made its first tentative steps out into the Galaxy. Jack Coulter must grow up, get educated and establish his life in a future society that has concentrated all political, financial and police power in the hands of a minority that consider themselves an elite. Greed and Avarice are the Elitist guiding beacons with a religious zeal for stiking together to keep the rest of the world in thrall. Jack Coulter precariously wends his way through this quagmire.