THE BRISTOL WARRIOR JOB

About the Book

The war was going badly for America in 1942, but the Tebo shipyard was bursting with ships and the waterfront bars were exploding with sailors, hustlers, and shipyard workers. When a smashed rivet ship limped into port requiring urgent repairs, Terry Peirce, in charge of personnel, had to hunt down hard-drinking, temperamental rivet gangs to handle the job. War fever consumed the nation. Girls like the bewitching Viola Wakeless went mad for gold braid while Terry, crazy for Viola, tried to break free of her. Brilliantly depicted here, this was an electric time like no other in America’s history.

About the Author

Lee Meagher worked in New York publishing for seven years. As she sat at home one evening editing a young man’s first novel already under contract to a large publisher, she kept muttering to herself, “Oh, I can do better than this - I can do better than this…” Finally her husband, the novelist Joseph William Meagher, doubtless tiring of the moaning and muttering, looked up and said, “Well, Lee, I guess we’ll never know what you can do unless you try.” That must have been the right push. The result is this wonderfully entertaining novel that takes no prisoners.