THE STORY: Mark Baxter is a young scientist, drafted to work on a new Army missile program. His stay in Washington wins him the rank of Colonel, the cover of a national magazine, and the hand of his next-door neighbor, Eleanor Winston. Eleanor is t

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

From the Mercury Freedom 7 cockpit to present day Houston, and a short visit to Imperial Rome, The Man on the Roman Candle explores the politics of the early space program, and how its successes are the basis for American patriotism. The Man on the Roman Candle is a ~12 page essay. Bonus Material: The first episode of the suspense serial The Blind: Episode I (Plank Bridge Bayou)

A hidden masterpiece points the way to a treasure lost since the fall of Rome! Before fleeing her Mossad pursuers, the Warden leaves Grant a final gift—or is it a curse? An unknown Caravaggio, coveted by collectors, and hunted by the man who chained Grant to a sinking ship and left him for dead. When the painting goes missing, an ambitious art restorer will do anything to gain access to the lost work—even if it's over Grant's dead body. Renaissance science and the artist's tragic life and untimely death provide the clues, while D.A.'s past rises to haunt the hunters. The last thing Grant wants is to get involved, but if his enemy wins the race, it's literally the beginning of the end: the flame to inspire the Apocalypse.