Stephen Douglas Hayes has read voraciously and studied history his entire life. He has written ten novels and six plays. After cancer and successful treatment, a massive heart attack left him in a six-week coma, during which he conceived this book. Additional books came to him in the coma and are still to be written. Living in southern California now, Mr. Hayes was born in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Exhibiting that New York style and brashness, as well as the gift of language from his Irish forebears, he is proud of his Navy years, his wife and daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchild...