Return to Sender: The Secret Son of Elvis Presley : A Novel [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

I was very impressed with the quality of the book I purchased. Also the speed with which I received the item.

Will definitely encourage me to shop a Amazon in the future.

Sher

I had read this book many years ago and for some reason it would pop up in my mind every now and then. I wanted to read it again but I couldn't remember enough about it to find it again until I REALLY searched Amazon's Books and FOUND it!!
It stretches the imagination much too far but in a fun sort of way. I did enjoy reading it again. Sort of desert novel. (Thats a book that you don't take seriously and can get a quick fun read out of)
I would like to see one written dealing with Elvis's twin brother had he lived. THAT would be interesting no doubt.
The plot is that Elvis wanted a son but he wanted him to grow up in a "normal" environment . So he has a lawyer help him find a Plastic Surgeon who has been experimenting with cloning in his hidden lab. This man "creates" an Elvis cloned son.
The story is mostly about this boy trying to find out who has left him a LOT of money. Its a mystery, love story and science fiction all rolled into one.

It's been 10 years since Sue and I penned "Return To Sender", and we still think this is a great story. It would also make a great movie. Despite Publishers Weekly's negative review, which is not surprising since most critics like to ridicule Elvis Presley, Return To Sender was simply intended to paint the music icon in a more positive light than most books. The story is historically possible, and many people believe that Elvis really does have at least one secret son. In this story, The King attempts to create a new version of himself, a more well rounded person who grows up in a happy home, btter educated and more independent, and who does not fall victim to the perils of fame and fortune.

While Publishers Weekly called for "a wild ride through Elvis world", frankly that was none of their business, nor was it the authors' intention. We didn't miss the boat by refusing to recycle idiotic stories like Elvis shooting TV sets in Vegas. We tried to show the other side of the pop entertainer, notably the man who went from nothing to everything so fast he lost control of his life, and sadly died at the age of only 42. Climbing inside the mind of Elvis, we discovered the lost soul who wished things could have been different but did not have the power to change himself. As a last resort, realizing he'd blown his marriage and couldn't bring back the person he loved the most, his mother, Gladys, Elvis decides to experience a re-birth, in the form of Jamie Randolph. Jamie is the son of a New Jersey lawyer who physically resembles Elvis, and his wife, who Elvis considers a perfect mother, like his own. The Randolphs cannot have children, and are tricked into believing that Jamie is their genetic son, when actually he is genetically related to Elvis. The world's first in-vitro (test tube) baby is born in New Jersey, two years before the little girl now acknowledged as the first.

If you like romance novels, and feel saddened by the tragic life that Elvis endured, you can now re-live the life Elvis wishes he'd had through the life of Jamie Randolph, who comes to suspect that something strange happened when he was born. Jamie inherits $4 million on his 18th birthday. The gift is anonymnous, and Jamie, being as curious and as irrepressible as his biological father, devotes the summer after his high school graduation to seeking out the truth.

This is a mystery novel as well as a romance. Travel across the country with Jamie Randolph as the bits and pieces of his amateur detective type investigation fall into place, and little by little he uncovers what really happened two decades earlier following the murder of one lawyer and the suicide of a second. We also added an element of science fiction to make the story more intriguing: a somewhat deranged plastic surgeon and evolutionary theorist who thinks he's solved the answer to the questions of the universe. Once again, Publishers Weekly picks on us for not being believable, as if the events of the real world (like Sept. 11th) have ever been that. Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction. You'll have to decide if that applies to this novel. But we think it could be the most incisive book ever written about Elvis, and who he really was. If you can read this book without being moved, we'd be surprised. Elvis lives on.