Sonoma as rich as the bloodred wine that comes from its ripe earth...steeped in tradition...bursting with passions as hot as the sun that gives life to its lush vineyards.Here Silvio Moretti, a penniless Corsican immigrant, would forge his empire. Here his sons - bound by blood, rent by violent emotions - would war with each other and the enemy who threatened to wrest that empire from them. Here the Morettis, torn between a proud past and an uncertain future, would realize their turbulent destiny...Theirs is an epic story set against the vivid pageantry and explosive politics of...SONOMA
Working name of US writer Leonard M Sanders Jr (1929-2005) US author who also published as by Dan Thomas, under which name he wrote The Seed (1968), an sf novel in which a Computer explains the meaning of life to one of its engineers. The later Hamlet Group sequence of very Near Future thrillers, comprising The Hamlet Warning (1976) and The Hamlet Ultimatum (1979), following America's attempts to prevent terrorists known as The Hamlet Group from detonating an atomic device in Santo Domingo [JC]