Offspring of Adam Back

How do circumstances alter decisions or lives?  In the prior volume, The Would-be Lives of Adam Back, we saw Adam, his decisions and his life under two sets of broadly different conditions.  In the first, status quo, Adam was the man he was born and raised to be.  He turned out as he was always going to, given the individual he was.  In the second, after governmental upheaval and subsequent war, A...