Father of the man
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"It's just after dawn, June 6, 1982: "Dutch" Potter, an upstate New York bus driver and father of a soldier who's been missing in action in Vietnam for twelve years, snaps and dons his World War II army uniform, collects passengers aboard his BC Transit bus, then veers off route, careening into the woods of northern Pennsylvania, where he holds seven hostages to his one demand: return my son.".
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"This wild ride, taking us from New York to Normandy to Southeast Asia by way of Dutch's memories, hopes, and despair, is rendered in mesmerizingly lyrical prose - ranging in tone from bardic to barfly - and forms a brilliantly layered and nuanced narrative. As FBI helicopters whir and command centers are jerry-built, Dutch readies himself for an armed confrontation with federal authorities, while his family and close-knit community are thrown into sudden and dramatic action.
Father of the Man reveals itself to be a love story: not only between father and son, but between husband and wife, mother and child, the living and the dead."—BOOK JACKET.
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