Ride to Glory
By: Warren LeRoi Johns

Hardcover
416 pages
Limited Edition
ISBN: 0967341108

About the Author:  Warren LeRoi Johns practiced law as a career in California, Maryland, and the District of Columbia until partial retirement in the summer of 1992. His previous non-fiction Dateline Sunday, U.S.A., drew national attention as a legal history documenting blue law confrontation with the U.S. constitution’s first amendment. A 1958 graduate of the University of Southern California’s Law Center, and holder of La Sierra University’s 1994 "Alumnus of the Year" award, the author’s professional resume appears in Who’s Who in American Law; Who’s Who in America; and Who’s Who in the World.

Storyline:  Gutsy Ph.D. candidate and independent thinker, Joshua Chamberlain Ryan, is cast as "star" witness, inadvertently pitting him against major Professor Karl Striker, devout defender of Darwinian doctrine. Josh thumbs his nose at Darwin’s speculations and puts his academic credentials on the line, irreverently bashing mega-evolution with the courage of the Biblical Joshua attacking Jericho.

Off-stage, the young "star's" week-in-the-sun encounters roller coaster emotional highs and lows-including a reckless Ride to Glory astride the family’s Arabian mount. Not until the tumultuous week’s end do the bleak fortunes of Josh Ryan swing in his favor, thanks to a stellar Monkey II performance and a manipulative grandmother who dexterously laces, pulls and ties strings of intrigue.

Josh discovers passionate romance with glamorous Monkey II co-star, Traci Kilburn, while his estranged, socialite grandmother, Lady Carrington, picks this week of surprises to disclose long concealed family secrets in a poignant mission of reconciliation.

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