James Chesterton, Author

After teaching high school English for three years in New York, I sold my soul to the corporate sector and spent the next thirty years there. My experience in the banking industry informed my first novel, Holding Patterns, a financial crime thriller. Now that I’ve retired, my focus is on the world we are leaving for our children. This is the inspiration for my latest novel, Ashes of the Republic, where I seek to answer a simple question: Can the principles of American democracy survive theocratic rule? My wife and I live in Connecticut in our now-emptied nest, our two children having started their own journeys into today’s already frightening and damaged society.