"It was good land, rich land, big and sprawling and Paleolithic, rich in swamp, rich in algae, in the heart of The Fern Belt."

So starts the sweeping saga of the Bundleworths, the original "Old Money," who proudly trace their lineage all the way back to Texas, One Million B.C. For Price Bundleworth, tight-fisted patriarch of the family, and by corporate bylaw, inheritor and President of the formalwear conglomerate, Tuxaco, life is grand. That is, until ne'er-do-well son Cad sticks his shovel in the ice at a tuxedo-rental-store groundbreaking in the Arctic Circle, and the family discovers an ice-cold blast from the past.

From the ski slopes of Gstaad, to the boardrooms of Bundleworth, Texas, from the racetrack curves of La Grand Mort to the nip/tuck clinics of Beverly Hills, Tuxes tells the tempestuous, sensational story of the return of a man with a club and a dream.

One who seldom speaks, but whose eyes burn, beneath a sloping forehead, with the entrepreneurial spirit.

Contact the publisher, Ron Packard, Jr.: rjpackard @ me . com