behind the scenes
Wernher von Braun and John F. Kennedy
"I've brought readers behind the scenes of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Alien. Now I'm bringing readers behind the scenes of the first Space Age. ALL UP travels the distance, from the cataclysmic global conflict of World War II to the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon. The novel's amazing but true story is populated by real personages -- Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin -- as well as composite and fictional characters. Its primary focus is the Faustian engineer Wernher von Braun and his Soviet counterpart, the incredible Sergei Korolev, the mind behind Sputnik and the first man in space. My story also includes spies, soldiers, and extra-terrestrials. ALL UP is a novel because many of the elements admitted behind closed doors never make their way into the public records. ALL UP is a literary interpretation based on five or six years of research, and many drafts. I hope readers will enjoy the final result."
-- J. W. Rinzler
-- J. W. Rinzler
