Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost e-bog

The first book that J. Malcolm Garcia ever bought would impact his life in a way that the then twelve-year-old could have never imagined. The Day the Red Baron Died plunged Garcia into the intrigue and excitement of the World War I German flying aces life and death. Garcia was enraptured and brimming with questions. His mother encouraged the curious boy to write to the books author, Dale M. Titler. When the author replied, a friendship began that shaped Garcias life.In Riding through Katrina with the Red Barons Ghost, Garcia chronicles his relationship with Titler. It was that connection that brought Garcia to New Orleans only two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and its citizens. Not having heard from his friend in years, Garcia made the split-second decision to go to New Orleans to try to find the man who meant so much to him.A harrowing account of New Orleans directly after Katrinatold in Garcias award-winning journalistic styleRiding through Katrina with the Red Barons Ghost tells a personal story of a thirty-year bond that defined a young man, as well as the universal story of the horror and devastation Katrina left in its wake.