Bøger af Jon Foyt

A novel; A Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, and the two fall in love. Together they open a microbrewery and find themselves confronting terrorism of a new sort-in unmapped emotional territory.

In Jon Foyt's 19th novel, archaeologists Jackson and Danica Alioto jump at an opportunity to explore a new field in their careers- the pre-Roman Etruscans. Meanwhile, Stuart Sweet eagerly accepts a chance to tell about the Anasazi...whoops, to be politically correct: the Ancestral Puebloans of New Mexico. Their lives come together in the tombs of the Etruscans and the Grand Kiva of Chaco Canyon. All at an academic conference in an Etruscan Museum-where new information about they who have gone before come to light under the Etruscan Sun (actually, on a rainy day in Italy) and by Sweet's students in the dusk of a fall night in the Grand Kiva discovering an answer to the question as to who drew the plans of Pueblo Bonita, an enormous prehistoric building.

Mystery and Romance abound in this novel set in an active adult retirement community. Follow local reporters, Willy (himself nearing retirement) and Sally, as they investigate the suicide of a prominent resident and the lifestyles of aging retirees.

Sara Vogel, a student loan-strapped PHD candidate, seeks fulfilling, remunerative work in her chosen field, World History. Her advisor, Professor Skip Kincaid, now in declining health, urges Sara to continue his research on how and why wars are financed, with specific focus on World War II. For personal reasons, Sara initially resists. But when a Think Tank in Geneva offers to fund and publish her dissertation in book form, she relents and accepts their proposal. Arriving in the Swiss Alps at the centuries-old Chateau Rougemont, Sara finds herself remarkably transported back in time to events that occurred there some 75 years earlier. Does she share her parents' clairvoyant traits? How else to explain the appearance of an American pilot -her family's former neighbor - reportedly downed by Nazi gunfire? Or the unforgettable sight of fields being covered by falling "red snow"? Pursuing clues revealed in a chateau servant's diary, Sara unravels an incredible tale involving central bankers, the Bank for International Settlements, and shipments of gold among warring nations, notably to Nazi Germany. Incredibly, those very bankers-at war with one another by day-socialize together on wildflower hikes in Alpine meadows and over games of bridge in the chateau.

But what if there is no home? Historical researcher and novelist, Jon Foyt, has been active in all facets of real estate: from designer, developer, and contractor to lender, borrower, title researcher, broker, and homeowner. Employing his extensive knowledge, experience, and skills, Foyt explores the homeless problem in a fictionalized Bay Area, visualizing a unique solution involving General Santa Anna's Land Grant to the leader of the Mexican War Irish Brigade, the Los Patricios.

Two men reflect on what went right and wrong during their long lives in this novel. Socratic dialogue on growing very old. These two men of the Silent Generation might not confront any of the really intriguing issues-from their white maleness to the sex lives of octogenarians-but they do hit the classics: parenthood, accomplishments, and the point of it all. A philosophical tale about two men in old age.

This writing, offering among other things, some fictionalized stories, most based on actual events, addresses some of the diverse thoughts, emotions, and viewpoints accompanying aging, as well as thoughts on retirement and reflections on lifestyles.