the opening of my book is about the wonderful san francisco legendary character vincent hallahan the but reject what he had grown up in him became that link to the new. he starts off as hallahan felt he was defender frankie eagan who was the public defender in the town and thought it was the next mayor of the city but it turned out frankie eagan was actually runningç a racket ex-cons to bump off elderly women and steal their pension, there, the longshoreman leader when the f. ei in the federal government in the cold war worked work after harry bridges was the effective labor leader runs for president under the said party ticket. the fbi goes after him with everything they have and he is thrown in prison on trumped up tax charges twice. but he raises this rolling brood of tough irish kids. terry callan hand who grew up in the neighborhood and lived in the neighborhood lawyers themselves and gary of course was the d.a. in san francisco. the only one who was given a -- janis joplin and bay of san francisco. so, this is a book that really sold itself, have to say. these stories and char

hallahan knows from reports what's coming. and he realizes that there's only one way out of this, that is straight through it. because if he fails to engage the japanese will overwhelm the cactus air force complained their troops and the party is over. if he engages, all the ships are probably going to be lost, it's not a happy order of battle. if you are on the american side. but one of the men i interviewed, callahan is coming in for lumps because once this battle begins there's no evidence destinies tactical command as if there ever could've been. but he comes in for lumps because he didn't leave behind a nifty battle plan that admiral scott had prepared for historians to read and admire. the last tactical order callahan gave was straight out of come in, straight out of lord nelson as the forces are engaging, his last command to his column is on chips fire starboard, even ships fire poured. as if that's going to do anything when, suppose your account and you engaging a ship, you just instructed to fire starboard. okay, find