​​​​​Robert Penn Warren in his masterpiece All the King's Men said you never forget the friend of your youth. No matter how he changes, he is always the same to you. This is a story of two such friends. How their lives go down separate paths, but their friendship remains. Even though they change, they are always the same to each other.

Jim Farrell has a Masters Degree in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He served

as a captain in the Army in Vietnam and is currently retired and lives in Palm Coast, Florida, with his wife, Marianne Collinson. This is his ninth novel and eleventh book.​