Jackie L Smitha little more please2:39 PMClaude responded: ---Jackie L. Smith is a United States Navy veteran and the author of eleven novels spanning thrillers, middle-grade fantasy, and family drama. His work includes The Customs Conspiracy, Echoes of 1969, HankBlankenship and the Longest Fall, Atlas Drummond, The Last Whisper of Innocence, Colby Utterback, Brynn Thornwick, The Fractured Path to Emerald Vale, Wilbur Northcutt and the Boonesborough Fall, and The Arrest of Wilder Rhodes.Charlie Fitzgerald's Folly is his first work of literary fiction - a slow, quiet novel about a sixteen-year-old boy from Oklahoma who falls into a different field and a different year and learns who his father was before he was anyone's father. It is, in many ways, a book about the things men carry and do not say.Drawing on decades of military service, hospital administration, and civilian support work, Smith writes about duty, loyalty, family, and the bonds that hold people together - even when those bonds are tested to the breaking point. He divides his time between Kentucky and the Gulf Coast of Florida, where he writes most mornings before the heat sets in. Read More Read Less