Mundy McDowell, a young boy, witnesses his mother raped during the Civil War. He also watches his house burned. After this trauma, he becomes mute, guided only by a spirit dog through the wilderness where he encounters many kinds of people.
Jack Dunn is an US award-winning author whose books are read all over the world. He is best known for novels that feature international intrigue and mystery, coupled with long forgotten religious and documented present-day history.
From 2006 until 2012, Jack was involved in a series of legal actions against Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code (2003) and Angels & Demons (2000). Jack claimed Brown made over $1 billion by copying the entire structure, plots, characters and their interactions, Opus Dei and Knights groups, scenes, locations, "all in an easily identifiable chapter by chapter sequence" from his 1997 novel The Vatican Boys.