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YEAR OF THE RAT tells the tale of Robert Stevens, a blind Vietnam veteran who is also the newly elected
president of the United States and who, many fear, is about to bring America into war with China.
Stevens is convinvced the United States can keep the Communist nation from invading Taiwan. But others, including Speaker
of the House Jack Wolfe, are equally certain America's interference can only result in nuclear war. Consequently, Wolfe, with
the help of a Communist Chinese agent, plans to trap and kill the president during a scheduled visit to an underground storage
facility that, ironically, is being considered as a nuclear waste repository.
However the plans go awry. The president survives the massive undergound explosion and is determined to struggled his
way to the surface. Accompanying Stevens is Stephanie Jacobs, a seriously injured college student, Brad Davis, a veteran who
must first overcome his own war-caused demons, and David Michaels, a former photojournalist who made Stevens famous with a
combat photo that failed to tell the whole tale.
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Don L. Hart is a graduate of the University of University of New Mexico who now lives in Pratt, Kansas. He served as
a signalman in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and has, since his discharge, worked as a journalist, librarian, educator,
student advisor and college administrator. His writings have appeared in such newspapers as The Jal Record,
The Sterling Bulletin and The Hutchinson News, as well as in such magazines as The Smith and Vietnam.
Year of the Rat is his first published novel. He is currently reworking an earlier, unpublished novel about the Navy
in the Vietnam War.
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