"The Adventures of a Good and Decent Man" is a series of six stories tracing key events in Mark Davidson's fate-driven passage through his adult life. Mother Nature and Lady Luck contrive to help this gentle American hero overcome numerous unusual challenges that confront him in our troubled and dangerous world. Women of accomplishment, bright and beautiful, courageous and decisive, step forward to aid him at critical crossroads on his path from the serious pursuits of academe to involvement in personal tragedy and international intrigue.