Dear Jerome

<p>It is in San Diego the city of perpetual springtime that newcomer Billy Considine puts aside guilt and the indecision of youth. Ahead are the seasons of a man’s life. Ahead are four decades of tumult and adventure pain and joy. Ahead is the maturing of America.</p><p>It is 1958. Billy is a rookie San Diego cop.<br />Alone and lonely Billy begins writing letters to his older brother Jerome sharing his life on the streets. His life as a new man.</p><p>The letters continue for thirty years. As Billy grows in writing skill in understanding in competence as a police officer his letters become more polished and insightful. The letters follow Billy through the police academy patrol work courtship life on the vice squad marriage promotion to homicide.</p><p>Billy’s journey takes him through the civil rights movement and race riots the student revolts of the 1960s the counterculture/anti-war 1970s the dynamic growth of San Diego and of the American economy in the 1980s.</p><p>Billy matures as America matures.</p><p>It is not always a pretty process.</p><p> </p>