Lost Illusions

About the Book

LOST ILLUSIONS is a moving drama about sex, drugs, and religion, the great addictions of that most seductive decade, the 1970's. Jon Fortch comes home from Vietnam to find his generation's world at odds with the myths and illusions of his father's. He and his wife Rigel struggle to keep a relationship together through their turbulent journey in pursuit of the truth behind the great illusions of the American dream.

About the Author

Born Aquarius 1943, James grew up a science-fair kid at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, was a helicopter gunship pilot in Vietnam in 1968, a junior prophet in a Christian fundamentalist "cult" ministry, associate editor for a small publisher of "new-age"and Wiccan books, Scientologist, psychedelicist, freelance propagandist, op-ed-page Libertarian gadfly, singer/composer, actor/playwright, flight instructor, pilot and pistolero for an illicit commodities importing concern, and practitioner of the not-so-gentle art of Tae Kwon Do. He now lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is also a sports-book gambler with some intriguing professional associations.