Jules Bonjour has been a criminal defense attorney in the San Francisco Bay area for forty nine years. In this, his first novel, he draws upon his many years defending those who have suffered discrimination and prejudice to write about the injustices that Japanese Americans experienced after Pearl Harbor and the Jews suffered in Vichy France after France fell to the Germans in 1940. He was born in 1939, the son of a Swiss immigrant who came to the United States in the late 19th century. He has a B .S. from Northwestern University, a Masters in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, and after a brief stint in the army, he returned to UC to attend law school and received a JD in 1966. He is married and has three 3 children and eight grandchildren. He lives in Berkeley near the Claremont Hotel and the UC campus and is still an active criminal defense attorney.