Jerome Reyer is a successful businessman, who, like the protagonist of the novel, sold his business for a good sum of money. There, however, the similarity ends. Mr. Reyer now lives in Florida and is himself a management consultant, who is freelancing at this time. He has been, in his life, a soldier, a corporation president, the president of a large national trade association and the Chairman of the Board of the largest country club in America. He is currently at work on his second novel, which is about a terrorist plot to blow up the Kennedy Space Center.