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Lauren Mendelsohn, a scholarly thirty-something criminal law professor has fled an unhappy marriage and crumbling career as a prosecutor in San Francisco for a teaching position at a law school in northern California's legendary wine country.
The story begins when she visits Coconut Grove to see her aunt, an eccentric artist. Her fellow houseguest (and fellow Californian) is Desmond Franzini, a writer of historical fiction, there to revive his flagging career with a Miami book tour. Obnoxious and arrogant, he thoroughly alienates Lauren, then leaves on an unexplained "side-trip." Several days later, he turns up dead at a resort in Boca Raton, seemingly of natural causes. Left behind at Olivia's is a memoir by a World War II bombardier.
Back in California, at her aunt's urging, Lauren reluctantly agrees to look into the writer's death. Her journey takes her deep into the lives of two men: the recently deceased Franzini, a novelist desperately struggling to revive his career and the memoirist, a young bombardier who flew missions in the Pacific some fifty years before. Locales range from San Francisco's North Beach to the vineyards of Sonoma as Lauren searches for clues to the past.
Along the way, she explores events that took place in war-era India, China and the Pacific. The bombardier flew the infamous Hump over the Himalayas on grueling supply missions to northern China and was sent, finally, to Tinian for bombing sorties over Japan. The mystery deepens when Lauren learns that the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, took off with its infamous payload from a secret compound on the island.
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Most authentic book compilation on the Oregon Trail I ever read. The way the diaries are brought to life from over 170 years ago is a remarkable achievement. Top book of year so far for me for today June 01, 2024 review Candice
This author is a breathe of fresh air in a world of lies and coverups. He brings ancient writings and new science to bring light to mankind. In this amazing work, the well known plato stories from antiquity are now put alongside this new discovery of tablets from beginning of time. This is the most complete explanation of Atlantis every brought to the public. Shame on the governments of Egypt and the world for hiding WHO BUILT THE PHYRAMIDS OF GIZA AND THE SPHINX. Once I read this book I knew why they hid this knowledge. They don't want a population to know how great the world used to be compared to know.
Randomly stumbled upon this book and I am shocked that I haven’t heard about it before. It’s hands down the best story I’ve read in years. People need to read this book. It needs to be turned into a book. This story is just plain awsome. M
This soulful book of personal poetry brought me into the past and into the present---and into my heart.
Read the first book and this 2nd one did not disappoint! Loved every chapter. More please!