Patrick D. Rivette

Patrick Rivette holds a BS from West Point and an MBA from the University of Georgia. He served 21 years as a U.S. Army Infantry officer in various posts in the U.S., Germany, and Egypt from 1971 to 1992. He is Airborne, Air Assault, Expert Infantry, and Ranger qualified. In addition to serving in leadership positions in The Berlin Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Division, he has served as Comptroller for the 7th Army Training Command, and taught Army ROTC at the University of Michigan, and Augusta College. After leaving the Army he taught high school for 20 years in Evans, Georgia and in Manila, the Philippines. He is married to the former Miriam Martinez of Caracas, Venezuela and has three grown children, Vanessa, Daniel, and Adam. Miriam and he also have 5 grandchildren, 3 boys and 2 girls.

This book was a labor of love that took the author almost 6 years to complete. Although a work of fiction he has tried hard to make this book as historically accurate as possible with the historical events that the main character participates in and the historical characters that he encounters. While writing the book I saw the painting in a magazine that depicted a centurion from the 2d Legion Augusta, which is the legion that the main character served in during part 2 of the book, so I felt it had to be used for the cover.