Michael D Mercurio

A Charleston Yankee Michael D Mercurio

Publisher Marketing: Amid the turbulent 1960s arises an intriguing tale of love, betrayal, and death in the ever-historic Charleston, South Carolina. As marine maverick Mike Romano steps off the naval base, he has no inkling of what civilian life has in store for him. After retrieving his wife from his hometown of New York City, he launches a new career as an insurance salesman, with a fire for putting the past behind him and achieving great success. But Mike quickly finds himself hawking burial insurance and collecting weekly premiums in a predominately black ghetto. This isn't what he had envisioned, but the exposure ignites a different kind of internal flame-one that is quiet but strong. It gets him involved in a political group intent on positive social change, which introduces him to a fascinating, wealthy, older woman with high political ambitions who sets her sights on him. As his involvement in the civil rights movement intensifies, so does the groundswell against the Vietnam War. Tensions rise along with racial hostility, murders, bombings, and burnings, and Mike soon realizes that America is no longer the country he once swore to defend. Experience these historical and iconic events, through the life of one passionate man in search of personal fulfillment and public justice.