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About Fate of the Warriors Mike's second novel, Fate of the Warriors, is as gripping and fast-paced as Warrior Priest. Also like Warrior Priest, it emphasizes relationships to propel the story. And like Warrior Priest, Fate of the Warriors weaves the lives of fictional characters with real-life people. Here is a preview of a journey that provides a different and broader perspective of happenings during the 1940s-1960s and into the 1970s... Fate of the Warriors begins in 1906 in an Ohio farm field. Henry Lawrence, his son Edward trailing, is guiding a team of four mammoth draft horses. They are spooked and bolt. Years later, Edward marries and fathers three sons and a daughter. Dick and Bill, the two oldest, become talented young musicians and high school marching band members -- and are swept up into World War II. Waiting at home is lovely Helen Wakefield. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, John Santiago, young and restless on his parents' ranch, has decided to migrate to bustling Los Angeles where he launches a construction firm, marries and fathers four daughters. In 1945, chance begins connecting -- and testing -- the Ohio Lawrences and the California Santiagos. Over the next quarter century, chance weaves their lives in ways that fuel romance, adventure, tragedy and triumph. The 1940s: The horrors of North Africa and Omaha Beach -- and their aftermath... a young war veteran's cross-country train ride with a real-life movie actress... The 1950s: two WWII veterans, now businessmen, trapped north of the 38th Parallel at the outbreak of the Korean War... the actress and a carousel ride on Santa Monica Pier... The Mickey Mouse Club -- and its fallout for the warriors... The 1960s: a lonely woman's attraction to a teenage boy... a bow hunt in an Ohio cornfield -- and what it portends... a flooding river and a collapsing footbridge... an experiment with LSD... North Korea's capture of the USS Pueblo... the Korean DMZ, exploding flares and a frightened, real-life U.S. senator... the actress and a romp on Malibu Beach... one soldier's shredding another's telegram of love... an unexpected and fierce clash along Korea's eastern coast... death in the DMZ... The 1970s: Ben, the youngest Lawrence brother, himself a former soldier, finding love where he least expected... peril in New York's Central Park... justice and redemption... a reunion of survivors from across the decades -- and the oceans... These and other happenings create -- and test -- the warriors in unexpected ways. Copyright © 2009 Mike Johnson's Books North Canton, Ohio