A Pearl for Kizzy: A World War II Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533562128)

Ed Bethune grew up in Arkansas and joined the Marines when he was eighteen years old. He rose to the rank of sergeant. When his enlistment ended, he earned a B.S.B.A. and a Juris Doctorate from the School of Law at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Ed Bethune has a deep understanding of American culture. He was a special agent of the FBI in Newark, NJ, during the race riots of 1967. In 1970 he became a prosecuting attorney in Arkansas and led a complete revision of Arkansas' rules of criminal procedure. As a trial lawyer he prosecuted and defended many important cases. In 1978, against all odds, he won a seat in the United States House of Representatives, the first Republican to hold that seat in 104 years. He served three terms in Congress. In 1990, Ed and his wife, Lana, attempted to sail their 31-foot sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean. On their sixth day at sea, they encountered a fierce storm with 30-foot waves that led to a harrowing rescue by the U. S. Coast Guard. In 2011 Bethune wrote his memoir: Jackhammered, a Life of Adventure, and in 2014 he finished the novel, Gay Panic in the Ozarks. His third book, A Pearl for Kizzy, is a novel set on the Black River in Arkansas during World War II, Ed and Lana have two children and eight granddaughters. They reside in Little Rock, Arkansas.