"American Pies, Happy Lives, Blue Skies & Other Lies" is the first play of a Vietnam War trilogy which includes "Bui-Doi: The Dust of Life" and "The Wall." The story unfolds at the home of decorated Vietnam veteran Sam Adams and his wife Angel in Cambridge, Massachusetts nine years after Sam and his boyhood friend Tom Charles left for Vietnam. The year is 1977. Sam returned a hero after his tour of duty and married Angel, Tom's former fiancee. Sam has made a pile of dough as a big time stockbroker in Boston's financial district and is living good life. Tom comes home many years later, a...

Through no fault of her own, rookie reporter Neila Andersen has just landed an assignment from her irascible editor at the Boston Mercury that could win her a Pulitzer Prize. All she has to do is find out why Boston's most prominent geneticist, Nobel Laureate Dr. Frank Goodman was viciously assaulted by his childhood rival Christian Slaughter, a Harvard classmate who for two decades has practiced medicine in obscurity at a public clinic. As a medical resident at Mass General 22 years earlier, Goodman fell in love with Scandinavian beauty, Elena Jensen. However, Goodman lost her to his friend,...

Alex Brownell, 22, is about to enter his senior year at Brown University. He has just become engaged to his long-time girl friend, Melanie Chase, also 22, and a senior at Smith. Melanie is quite literally the girl next door in Alex's hometown of Newport, RI and they have "been together" since grammar school. Alex's mother is ecstatic about the engagement because Melanie is like a daughter to her. Alex's best friend Kip Dyer, also a senior at Brown and Alex's dad are a little uncomfortable about the engagement because to their knowledge Alex has never had the opportunity to "sow his wild...

When heiress Claire Vanderbilk meets Renaissance man "Fast" Eddie Sullivan on a private beach on Aquidneck Island, sparks begin to fly in two directions: left and right. Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who lost an eye and his young Vietnamese bride in the Vietnam War three decades earlier. Claire is a Newport, RI socialite with blood the color of the deep blue sea. Even though highly skeptical of each other's politics, Claire and Eddie find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another, this in spite of the fact that Eddie has a girl. Victoria Jefferson, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson and...