When Alex O’Bannion disappeared from a windswept battlefield in the South Pacific, it set in motion a series of events that altered the lives and destiny of a young Jewish woman, a mysterious neighbor, a beautiful invalid, a reporter, a mob boss, a police sergeant, and others, including a killer.
All these characters had one thing in common; none of them had ever met the young marine before he vanished on Guadalcanal in 1942.
Though he became interested in writing at a young age, the author didn’t act on it until he learned at 59 that he was adopted. Two wars and a career in government gave him much to write about. He also credits an English course that he completed in college as a young man.