Fate of the Warriors — Mike Johnson

Two wars, a movie actress and The Mickey Mouse Club bring together two families over more than 25 convulsive years in a meticulously researched story. Woven together memorably are the lives of a family father and three sons from a small Ohio town, a Los Angeles family with four daughters, a film star, a young Englishman, a Korean farm couple and two young men from two contrasting New York cultures Manhattan and Queens.

From Omaha Beach to Central Park to Malibu to the 38th Parallel, Fate of the Warriors characters interact with real-life people, including the actress, a United States senator and a spy ships captain in historically authentic locales and situations from the 1940s into the 1970s.