Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

Book Four of Land of the Free, Home of the Brave completes the saga of the DeVito family in America and concerns the great-grandson of the stonemason who originally emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1898.Jay Marks lives in San Diego, California and works as a journalist for the San Diego Sun. The newspaper is flying him over to Europe to cover the biggest earthquake to hit Southern Italy in over a hundred years.In Rome, Jay runs into Howard Connors, a cameraman and long-time friend. In Naples, Jay and Howard meet Laura LaBianca, a nurse working with the Red Cross relief action. Laura LaBianca is the only daughter of a research scientist in the United States at Harvard whose theories can trace past and future historical trends in Western civilization.During the time that Jay is in Italy, America takes a turn for the worse under the Collier Administration and begins veering towards becoming a totalitarian nation with the institution of a national identity system.What Jay, Howard, and Laura decide to do about the country they love is the exciting conclusion to Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.