The Zirondelle

About the Book

This story, strictly fiction, relates the efforts of Federal and local members of the Drug Enforcement Authority, working as a unit in Louisiana and Florida, to shut down the pipeline of drugs coming into the US from Colombia. The path leads up the Mississippi River and could in time reach as far north as Canada. The main vehicle in the story is a fifty-foot catamaran built in Bay City, Michigan, and the persons are not all that they seem to be at first. The name of the story is a word from the bayou district of Louisiana, given to the insect “dragonfly.”

About the Author

I, the author was born on a farm in 1922, about 175 miles north of Detroit, Michigan. My family moved to Standish Michigan at the start of the 1929 crash of the U.S. economy. I enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942 and served as a radio operator on a B-24 bomber in the C.B.I. in both India and China. Came home in 1945 and was married for 62 years until my girl passed away.