San Anselmo

Join Ronan O'Neill, a Coast Guard Viet Nam War hero and now a highly-regarded civil litigator, and the people around him who form the nucleus of his life as he tells from his perspective about several of his paramount relationships and how his life courses change throughout his mid-life years, including forays into the world of high fashion, macro-medical science, and worldwide financial markets. Ronan's career in the Coast Guard Reserve ends. Yet, his legal work, anchored in California while spanning many U.S. jurisdictions, becomes ever more dramatic and complex in its scope, including twice influencing a U.S. governmental agency and coordinating his clients' interests while intertwined with some European Union financial markets, all while working with world-renowned scientists in the United Kingdom and France.

While deeply enmeshed in this primary workload, Ronan's old client from Upstate New York calls on Ronan to assist with several matters of consequence, including one that is quickly identified as a potential "you bet your company" matter as a prospective Mass Tort! Though loyal to this past client and despite his overwhelming workload and evolving personal relationships, Ronan undertakes his old friend's requests to provide his defense efforts in these difficult areas.

This fourth novel provides Ronan's autobiographical view of what, on reflection in his later years, became part of a continuing high plateau in his legal career. He is undergoing massive personal changes that will reshape how he will face much of the remainder of his life.