For Liberty… was my first attempt at a thriller concept. It is not the traditional one character caught up in a closing web of intrigue story. instead For Liberty… is 4 stories weaving together to show how interconnected human lives are. It raises the idea that your freedom, wellbeing, and very life may rest on the actions of someone on the other side of the world that you have never even met.
I thought the story was ready to publish, but recently I had the opportunity to spend some time on one of our Navy’s finest Destroyers. One of the stories in For Liberty… takes place on a U.S. Navy Destroyer, and being there made it clear to me that I need to rework some of those parts of the story. I want the look and feel of the book to be authentic and honor the people serving in our Navy.
So For Liberty… has a date with a complete edit, and then off for a scrub and polish before she’s off for the query process.
-kurt
