Unlikely Hero

About the Book

At age nineteen Jim leaves the sanctity of his little Mormon town and goes to fight in World War II. Jim is made a lead navigator in the army air corps and during his many combat missions over Germany becomes a highly decorated officer. On his return home Jim is lost. He cannot deal with being treated as a hero, for Jim feels responsible for the deaths of his comrades. He suffers from post-traumatic shock syndrome. To escape, he goes into the mountains of northern Idaho in the middle of a snowstorm to find a childhood love. Instead Jim finds himself.

About the Author

Boyd Cooper M.D. grew up in a simple county home in Idaho. He was highly decorated as a navigator in World War II. Putting himself through medical school Boyd headed for Hollywood where he became “gynecologist to the stars”. His first book published in 1972, “Sex Without Tears” won rave reviews in the New York Times. It sold around the world and was published in three languages. Boyd became a fiction writer in 2003. He has five children and lives in the Hollywood hills.