Ulysses' Bow Book

Will Sheriff Brian Forsberg be willing to throw away a thirty-seven year career in law enforcement in order to avenge a series of unsolved murders that have plagued him since the autumn of 1972? Or will a killer get away with a murder that seemingly has been solved.

Author Jason Willis answers these questions and more in Ulysses’ Bow, an allegorical retelling of the classic myth of The Odyssey. Framed around a modern murder mystery in 2009, Ulysses’ Bow journeys back to 1972 to tell the story of the Surdy family, which has been torn apart by the Vietnam War. After learning that his father’s helicopter has been shot down in the closing days of the Vietnam War, Karson Surdy must not only deal with the challenges of adolescence but must also deal with his alcoholic mother, who welcomes the advances of strangers rather than facing the tattered realities of a failed marriage. But veteran Brian Forsberg quickly finds himself entangled in the domestic struggle between Karson and the Rick Breiter, the man who’s trying to replace his missing father.