Cordwood 1957

A fictional novel about America's Space Race. Actual events, but the details are so suspenseful that you will never see them coming.

Welcome to Cordwood 1957. A story that takes place in 1957. It seems unimportant now, but cell phones, GPS, and many things we do are connected to 1957. How, 'The Space Race', that begins with Russia's Sputnik and the USA's answered with Explorer 1. Here's a fictional embellishment of the past.

Cordwood is a compilation of Shack's life, beginning with the newspaper business that transpired into a tumultuous relationship with an Indian tribe living on the Reservation along the Alabama/Tennessee border. Were the US Government steps in, things take an unusual twist leading Shack into the scientific realm involving America's Space Race.

James Woodrow Shack has a knack for sticking his nose in a little too much into other people's business than they like. A story about a Greyhound Bus and Indian turns from an accident report investigating the man's past. Ultimately, his nose led him into a near-death encounter leaving him in Washington DC, with an invite from the CIA.