The Bronze Horsemen

About the Book

The Bronze Horsemen is a fictional novel that describes an actual bronze age group of people called the Botai (Bow-Tie). who dominated the steppes of southern Russia for 600 years. According to "Discover Magazine, Summer/2010 the Botai were very likely the first to capture and domesticate a horse. The characters and adventures are fiction as are the names of their leaders and the challenges they faced as they struggled to survive. Their fortunes changed when they tamed a horse. Being mounted gave the Botai an advantage over those who sought to destroy them and changed the world for thousands of years.

About the Author

David Mallegol attended high school in NJ and graduated from Rider College where he wrote the college basketball program and later worked for the Doylestown, Pa. Intelligencer newspaper. He joined Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) three years after graduation. His career covered 38 years in marketing and federal regulations. His achievements include being one of two people to start Janssen Pharmaceuticals as a division of JNJ and he brought Imodium to the world market. He and a team of ten people wrote the first guidelines for interactions between pharmaceutical employees and physicians. He and his wife, Irma, live in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. where they are avid bicyclists, enjoy travel, boating, restaurants and sunny weather.