J. Paul “Jim” Hickey is a former global correspondent for ABC News. He spent nearly half a century covering news events around the world. Upon retiring from broadcast journalism, Jim turned to the printed word. This is his fourth novel. His books include two murder mysteries (Naked Ambition and The Blood Island Brooch) plus a Civil War historical fiction saga (The General & The Lady: A True Story of Civil Love and War). He also writes a Substack column, The Cutting Edge, where readers can read The General & The Lady in serialized form, in addition to the paperback edition. When Jim is not writing, he plays bass guitar in a classic rock band in the Charleston, South Carolina, area, where he lives with his wife, Marcia Sue Clever.