The Shadow of the Rainbow

About the Book

After visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall with my wife in 1991 and being a student of history, I continue my interest online. I was surprised to find that among the fifty-eight-thousand-plus Vietnam veterans memorialized on that cold black granite wall in Washington, D.C., somehow twelve names of people who were still alive were among them. One day shortly after I retired, my wife, Ann, like many wives do, became annoyed at my being under her feet all day and suggested quite emphatically that I go find a hobby. So I did, hence, The Shadow of the Rainbow. Based loosely on historical facts, this is a fictitious story of a “thirteenth” person’s name on the wall that woke up from coma one day to find he still had a chance to follow those dreams that had been so violently snatched from all the others.

About the Author

The author was born and raised on a farm south of Dodge City Kansas. As a child, he could frequently be found playing cowboys and Indians with Dennis Hopper in the Busleys Grocery Store parking lot on Saturdays. After traveling the world for 30 years as a member of the United States Air Force he is finally putting some of those experiences down on paper. His writings explore all corners of the human psyche, from the blackest of black to the whitest of white intertwined with a deep red adrenalin rush running through his characters. His passion against; injustice, stupidity and political correctness may be seen from time to time through his writings. He recently published “THUMBS”, a book of short stories involving the great adventure of Hitchhiking. He is currently working on a novel “SHADOW OF THE RAINBOW” born from the aftermath of the Viet Nam War that will be released early next year.