Broken Time

About the Book

Disillusioned and wounded for a third time, Wes Holton, a young marine, is transferred from Vietnam to Japan. Here, he meets and falls in love with Janie, a Navy nurse. But he is enlisted and she is an officer and their love is forbidden. Aided by their friends, Duane and Michiko, they carry on a clandestine romance. When their relationship is exposed, the couple is abruptly separated. Wes is sent back to Vietnam and loses contact with Janie.

Surviving 'Nam relatively intact, physically, Wes begins a quest to find Janie. A twist of fate involves him in the sport of stock car racing where he is gravely injured in a racing accident. Only Janie's love can wrest him away from death's grip.

Set in the late Sixties, Broken Time contains the colorful language, graphic and explicit scenes so prevalent during those years.

About the Author

Gerald M. Giroldi hails originally from Woodstock, Ontario. He left home at the tender age of sixteen for service in the Canadian Army. Five years later, seeking further action and adventure, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and married his fiancee, Kathy.

Some ten years, two children and a variety of duty assignments later, he returned briefly to Ontario. Necessity soon directed him westward as an "economic refugee," where he is now pleased to call Brooks, Alberta home. Gerald has been employed in the agricultural industry for nearly three decades and writes as a hobby. This is his first novel.