About the Author

HUGH MCINNISH WAS BORN IN 1934 in Union Springs, Alabama. He worked as an engineer for the US Army in the Star Wars and other defense programs. Hugh wrote a weekly column for the old Huntsville News from which came his book An American in Exile, written under the pen name, Thomas Franklin. Hugh's wife, Martha, is a graduate of Judson College and is a teacher and school counselor. Together they have four children and six grandchildren. JIM JACKSON WAS A HIGHLY RESPECTED ENGINEER and manager for NASA during the heyday of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the Apollo Moon Landing Program. All his working days, however, he was sorely plagued with a weekly recurring emotional disturbance. This problem is as yet unnamed, so rare is it: Each Friday he would lapse into depression, owing to thoughts that his superiors insisted he not come to work the next day. Nevertheless, he accomplished the work of seven days in five. Today, Jim, a widower and the father of two sons and five grandchildren, is adjusting to life in the leisure and comfort of a retirement home.