Brewer and The Portuguese Gold - Hornblower's Legacy - E-book - ePub

James Boschert grew up in the then colony of Malaya in the early fifties. He learned first hand about terrorism while there as the Communist insurgency was in full swing. His school was burnt down and the family, while traveling, narrowly survived an ambush, saved by a Gurkha patrol, which drove off the insurgents. He went on to join the British army serving in remote places like Borneo and Oman.
Later he spent five years in Iran before the revolution, where he played polo with the Iranian Army, developed a passion for the remote Assassin castles found in the high mountains to the north, and learned to understand and speak the Farsi language. Escaping Iran during the revolution, he went on to become an engineer and now lives in Arizona on a small ranch with his family and animals James Keffer was born September 9, 1963, in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of a city policeman and a nurse.  He grew up loving basketball, baseball, tennis, and books.  He graduated high school in 1981 and began attending Youngstown State University to study mechanical engineering. He left college in 1984 to enter the U.
S. Air Force.  After basic training, he was posted to the 2143rd Communications Squadron at Zweibruecken Air Base, West Germany.  While he was stationed there, he met and married his wife, Christine, whose father was also assigned to the base.  When the base was closed in 1991, James and Christine were transferred up the road to Sembach Air Base, where he worked in communications for the 2134th Communications Squadron before becoming the LAN manager for HQ 17th Air Force.
  James received an honorable discharge in 1995, and he and his wife moved to Jacksonville, Florida, to attend Trinity Baptist College.  He graduated with honors in 1998, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree.  James and Christine have three children. Hornblower and the Island is the first novel James wrote, and it is the first to be published by Fireship Press.  He has self-published three other novels.  He currently lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife and three children.