Beau Johnston attended high school in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, and then went to the Phillips Exeter Academy for a year. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a degree of BS in Economics. Beau was an industrialist in the Pittsburgh, PA area until 1991, when he moved to the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, to pursue a writing career. The Red Hat is his first adventure novel, and he also wrote Zaghruda, an action adventure.
Neither terrorist bombs in Tanzania nor assassin bullets in Belfast can deter Reuters journalist Smiley Sebastinelli as he collects information for a TV documentary. In Tanzania, he falls in love with a beautiful Muslim widow, Nursel, and their lovemaking is legendary.
In the pre-dawn hours of September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 strayed over 300 miles from its filed flight plan to Seoul from New York City. This deviation put the plane over Soviet territory for two and a half hours. The last two jet fighters sent up to interdict the flight shoot it down, resulting in the loss of 269 innocent lives.
Contains explicit sex.