As a part of the upwelling of festive cheer preceding the holidays, community outreach efforts, and as an assignment from the Shameless and Crass Commercialism Division of DP Tolan Books, an offer for a free copy of his first novel, Golden Gate, was sent out to a select group of discriminating readers; a few of whom actually were sent a copy.

Oh …the storyline of the second novel in The Tessera Trilogy, Sooley Base, is centered on one of two Saudi missile bases, As Sulayyil, in southern Arabia. As Sulayyil Missile Base, located at 20°43'07"N 45°35'01"E, is very real. The novel is, of course, fiction … or is it?