Hero?

About the Book

Four adults and two little boys - a vactioning professional

family of four, a free lance author doing research, and a

canyon camp waitress - with one thing in common.  They are

trapped on an western Sierra canyon road when an earthquake

cuts off their three cars, ahead and behind.  Nobody else

will know to initiate a search.  They must go north for

survival, climbing ridges and crossing rushing streams, to

find traffic on another canyon road, wherever that may be,

days away, while geared to the rate of progress possible with

two little boys. This is essentially a story of interaction

and cooperation of disparate strangers in travail, both

momentary and universal.  It focuses especially on the

spiritual rebirth of the waitress, a spent "flower child,"

and the character of the author, a hero by circumstance only.

About the Author

Gilbert S. Bahn is a retired engineer and current free-lance historical researcher with a storyteller’s imagination. Characters form, incidents occur, lifelines develop, and then a story gets committed to paper. His first novel was begun over forty years ago and went on the shelf while he pursued his career in research and development, turning out over 30 technical papers, four books, and an international technical journal which he founded and edited for five years. During that period, as a Boy Scout leader, he also conceived Stories from a Hundred Campfires, a work still in progress. Upon retirement he conducted an exhaustive study of conservative Democratic Senators targeted by FDR for defeat in the 1938 primary elections. Recently he has concentrated on historical demography. Writing fiction is his form of relaxation.