Former legal counsel to a Pulitzer Prize winning author and playwright, AveryMann now takes his own lifetime of experience as a diplomat, think tankdirector and government adviser to present an exciting new work of fiction and the launch of a new series, the Mark Jamison adventures.



Former government agent and think-tank director Mark Jamison needs a quietcoastal refuge for his breathing problems, and maybe some space to sort outhis life and what remains of his marriage. What he finds in the mysteriouslittle village of Angel Landing quickly escalates into a series of adventuresto save the planet, or at least its male inhabitants, and soon forces him toconfront his past and the assumptions that brought him here.

The composite Marin community of Angel Landing is brimming with secretsthat an aging investigator can't ignore, especially when the old house herents puts him smack in the middle of Wiccans chasing the secret of humanreproduction without the untidiness of needing men in the effort. The intriguecompounds when the government enlists his help to locate nuclear deviceswhich have entered the Golden Gate, but vanished without a trace. Througha bizarre series of twists, all connect up and relate back through the fog ofAngel Landing and his own past.

In Angel Landing, witches and Wiccans are not confined to fairy tales, andparthenogenesis and nuclear threats are not pipe dreams.

Angel Landing is intended as the first of a series of adventures of Mark Jamison, based on the author's own breadth of experiences around the world.