BOBBY jACK

Description

Growing up, Bobby Jack Stagnari was a great looking kid with jet-black hair, a twinkle in his eye, and the gift of gab. Everybody loved Bobby Jack! Everybody, that is, except Nettie Ruth Goins, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy local businessman. Nettie Ruth had hated Bobby Jack since first grade, and he had no idea why. As far as he knew, he’d never done a thing to her. Or, perhaps she was just crazy. Maybe that was the problem!When things began to heat up in Vietnam, Bobby Jack enlisted in the Navy. After all, everyone knows that the Navy doesn’t go to war. The plan was to avoid anything resembling actual combat. However, that plan did not work out so well. Somehow Bobby Jack managed to get himself badly wounded in action and is sent home with a Bronze Star with a “V” for valor in combat and a Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster for multiple wounds.Now a genuine war hero, Bobby Jack finds himself working for Nettie Ruth Goins’ father, putting his military connections to profitable use. Life is good. Surprisingly, Nettie Ruth Goins becomes Nettie Ruth Stagnari, and the happy new couple soon have a baby on the way.Twelve years into their marriage, tragedy strikes when their son, Benjy, is hit by a car. At the emergency room, Bobby Jack learns a dark secret that changes his life forever. Deciding to disappear, he takes his daughter, Gracie, to Pozzuoli, Italy, where he first finds his family roots and then plots a terrible vengeance.Bobby Jack has two problems to deal with. One problem is named Nettie Ruth. The other problem is named Rosalba.An Italian grandfather and an Italian-American father had taught him that the blood in his veins runs hotter than that of his fellow citizens in East Tennessee. Anyone who betrays him will find that out. Anyone else who is part of that betrayal will find themselves destroyed!Will Bobby Jack allow hatred and revenge to destroy the remainder of his life? Or, can he turn his tragic situation around. There is only one way to find out!

About D GUY

D GUY (Douglas Joe Guy,) has a fascinating background. Joe is from the small town of LaFollette, nestled in the beautiful mountains of East Tennessee. Joe is a military veteran with over twenty years in the U.S. Navy. Thirteen of these years in the Navy were spent on sea duty.Joe likes to say there are two types of stories in the Navy. One type is called a “sea story,” and these stories may even have a touch of truth to them. The other type of story always start out with the phrase, “Now this is no s**t ….” Naturally, true stories such as these became known as “no s****ers.”Joe read hundreds and perhaps thousands of book while at sea and from every genre imaginable. Combine that with the wealth of “sea stories” and “no s****ers” from his days in the Navy, and he has a lot of material to work with. Many of these tales were funny, some were tragic, others were love stories, and finally, some were simply preposterous. After retiring, Joe needed a way to get out from under his wife’s feet. Therefore, he decided to write a book.“One of the things I learned early on from information available from books, on writer’s sites on the web, and from YouTube videos, is that a person should write about what they know. I felt that I knew 3 things: First, I know East Tennessee in the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. The second thing I knew was the military. I retired as a Navy CPO. The third thing I know is life in Southern Italy in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. One or more of these three topics are found in all of my stories.I live with the love of my life in East Tennessee, along with three cats (all with Italian names). I also have three (sometimes) adult children, and I have five granddaughters (all of which are smart and beautiful).” I write a series called “The LaFollette Chronicles. There are 26 books in the series to date. They are fictional stories that take place in and around a small town in East Tennessee and/or Southern Italy The time frames for the stories are usually in the first seventy or so years of the last century.I write about life in those years and people in situations they had not planned on. No matter the time or the locale, the genre remains “Romance.”