All Maps Are Fiction

What happens when a young, established businessman, contemplating suicide, meets a young woman who travels via skateboard and whose life has all the normalcy of an AA meeting? The man's business is creating jigsaw puzzles, and the woman's life seems to have no boundaries. Together, the pair create a puzzle that will lead to a buried treasure.

This is the story of what happens when a young businessman, condemned to death for a crime he was not aware of, and contemplating suicide, meets a young woman who travels via skateboard and whose life has all the normalcy of an AA meeting. With a death sentence of AIDS hovering in the background, Eric and Aston follow a map, created by a former DEA agent into a mystery of theft, deception and a not-so-dead Viet Nam war-time pilot who reportedly crashed in 1978.

Clyde Witt worked as a journalist and photographer for more than 40 years before retiring. Fiction writing was not part of his retirement plan in 2008 when he started a genealogy project that led to his first novel. The original retirement plan called for more fly fishing and birding with his wife, Susan Jones. And while they've managed to pursue those pastimes, including trips to Cuba, Ecuador, New Zealand, England and around North America, fiction writing has consumed many hours in between. He is a regular attendee of the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival program where he has had the honor of working with numerous talented authors. He is also the author of "Lost in the Tallgrass" and its sequel, "A Clouded Life."