In America Head of Zeus and is determined to carve

and is determined to carve out some power for himself

Graham Greene

Unbeknown to Lori

bringing with it an age of terror and violence

Alex loses everything else - even his identity

In America Head of Zeus and is determined to carveThe story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen year old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.