And an opportunity to meet some men who have played large and small roles in our times, in a wide span of places . . .all of them friends or acquaintances of Bayard Stockton . . .

And all of them bearing, in one way or another, on Bayard's lifelong search for the essence of his father, an American who was a fighter pilot for the British in World War One, and who never recovered from that experience.

Occasionally, as the book develops, we'll post material from some of the chapters here.

Those currently in preparation include:

Siegfried Hoxter - Rebel, intellectual, freedom fighter

Andrew Kennedy

Heinz Friesen aka Hans Felfe

John Denson

George Bailey - European correspondent, editor, director of Radio Liberty. From the midst of the great post-war upheavals.

Mujibur Rahman

Hassan Kanafani

More names will be added as the work progresses.

And available from Amazon.com in September 2006, Flawed Patriot.

Former CIA Counter-Espionage Ops Officer . . .
Newsweek Bureau Chief . . .
Correspondent for ABC, BBC, German Radio and TV . . .

Author and Biographer Bayard Stockton