Jigsaw
The Caldwell Series
Published on 1. September 2010
384 pages
978-1-4520-6186-3 (ISBN)
Description
Jigsaw: is a continuation of the story begun in Admirals Son Generals Daughter. This book describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United States Military during the Roosevelt Presidential administration. The narration is by the grandson of a career naval officer, born in Beaufort, South Carolina. He will serve within the Office of Naval Intelligence in the Army Navy Building, Washington D.C. The explosive historical events of 1903 through 1906 are carefully followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in powerful settings from the jungles of Central America to the capitals of the European countries just prior to World War I. The many relationship stories between a man scorned and women incapable of love are woven throughout the book when the grandson graduates from law school and interviews with the United States Jag Corps. He is unaware that his father and his Uncle Theodore Roosevelt have decided to tap his knowledge of the law and his photographic memory to become one of this countries most successful counter intelligence officers.
Scenes are set carefully with attention to accurate research of the low country of South Carolina as well as our Nation's Capital circa 1903-1906. The second edition of Peoples Standard History of the United States written by Edward S. Ellis and published in 1906 by Western Book Syndicate and copyrighted by the Woolfall Company have provided background materials, maps andphotographsof the period, and needed information on how the federal government was organized and functioned during this period of history.
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Dan Ryan is Professor Emeritus, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. He received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Northern Iowa, and his PhD from Pacific University. In his teaching career, he published sixteen textbooks, fifty-seven journal articles and numerous reports. He has been a frequent invited lecturer in the United States, England, Ireland, and China. His books have been translated into Russian, Polish and Chinese. He is also a member of the Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society. He is an avid reader and student of American History. He has traveled to forty-seven countries on four continents. He has previously published nine books with Authorhouse and these are now available on WWW.Authorhouse. com. He can also be reached on the internet at WWW.Amazon.Com/authors page for comments or questions.
Review of Dan Ryans Work
Starting in May of 2009, Dan Ryan, began his Caldwell Series of novels set in Beaufort, South Carolina. Calm Before the Storm was quickly followed by Death before Dishonor and Lull After the Storm. The next year two more novels in the series have been added, Admirals and Generals and Admirals Son Generals Daughter. Late in 2010, two more novels were added, Jigsaw and Catywampus. Next years selections are called War of the Nations, The General and Merryweather.
Barnes and Nobel Book Club
Two giant novels hit the scene in 2010, Admirals and Generals and Admirals Son Generals Daughter. These were close behind the heels of the Caldwell trilogy written in 2009. Dan Ryan has done it again with Jigsaw and Catywampus. Look for next years additions: War of the Nations, The General, and Merryweather USMC. If you love history you will enjoy reading the Caldwell family experience through three generations.
Amazon Book Club
Dan Ryans latest new novel, Jigsaw' was given to each member of the club before our monthly meeting. The discussion after reading the book was lively and divided along national boundaries of North and South. Ryan is a southern writer, but he understands a federal point of view and complications created by the history of our military.
Lady Rockers Book Club
