This book, although firmly embedded in the fantasy fiction genre, is more about a man's struggle to come to terms with the enforced changes in his life. It takes you, via the hero, Fadrian, on a rollercoaster ride of emotions and adventure. The world of Galleth Major is in turmoil, more turmoil than anyone could know and is in desperate need of a hero. The trouble is Fadrian doesn't know it.
In this, the first book of the Legend of Endeavor trilogy, the troubles of the known world are only just becoming apparent. Fadrian thoughts are elsewhere though as he tries to find his only surviving kin, his son Dratan. His search alone is a quest of epic proportions, without the problems of the outside world that are laying in ambush for him.

"If we had only known even a bit of what John Craddock tells us now, our own history could have been so very different."
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of "Blind Man's Bluff" In "First Shot," John Craddock investigates a little-known but clear eleventh-hour warning that, had it been heeded, might have enabled the Navy's Pearl Harbor command to blunt the Japanese assault and save ships and lives. Craddock reveals that the attack plan of Japan's Admiral Yamamoto included five midget submarines, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. "First Shot" vividly recreates the action on the deck of the U.S.S. "Ward" on the morning of December 7 as the outmoded relic of an earlier war engaged a tiny, state-of-the-art undersea fighting machine.