As I wrote in a previous entry, I had the idea for The Fellow Utopian long before I started writing my first novel The Bleeding Hills. Consequently, the title, story line, and cover idea had been brewing in my mind for a long time.

“A More Prefect Union” is the name of a speech delivered by Senator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination. The above quote is taken from that speech and it perfectly describes the theme behind my novel, The Fellow Utopian. The storyline is based on people and events that would only be possible here in the United States of America.

The Fellow Utopian tells the life story of Anthony M. Shoemaker, who immigrated from Germany to the United States in the mid 1930s. The reason to leave Germany is the current political situation. Shoemaker is a convinced communist, which made him a prime target for Hitler’s henchmen.