JackEngelhard?s The Days of the Bitter Endmay well be the definitive word on the 1960s. This is a landmark book,masterfully evocative. Engelhard once again proves himself to be a truly greatnovelist in this beautifully crafted historical novel that recaptures an erathat has left an indelible mark on our culture to this day.  Read it and laugh, read it and weep, becauseit?s all here, the way it was back then, the age of innocence soon to beshattered, but then reborn. This is what it was like to be young, every momentan adventure. Brilliant.

Praise Received for The Days of the Bitter End

?It?s allhere?masterfully written by one of the greatest novelists of our Age. Engelhardbrings to bear his journalistic talents as well as matchless storytellingability to put the reader right in the center of the action?of the story?of thetimes.?

- John W.Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969

?What agreat story. If you missed the 60s ? if you missed the excitement, the passion,the radicalism, the thrills, the hopes and dreams ? this book brings it allalive. I could not put it down.?

- Kmgroup review

?Anothersignificant accomplishment from this versatile writer, and it resonates withthe sort of dialogue and imagery that not only rings with credibility, butinstantly evokes a ?you are there? feeling for the reader.?

- Nancy Sundstrom, NorthernExpress

?Engelhard?s writing is superb, and heoffers up a slice of 1960s life that is vibrant and moving. The story isskillfully crafted, quite witty and intriguing.?

- Carie Morrison, Rambles.net

About the Author

Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard as?the last Hemingway? and of being ?a writer without peer and the conscience ofus all.? The New York Times commendedthe economy of his prose? ?precise, almost clinical language.? His bestsellingnovel Indecent Proposal made himinternationally famous as the foremost chronicler of moral dilemmas and oftopics dealing with temptation. Works that followed won him an even greaterfollowing, such as Escape From MountMoriah, his book of memoirs that won awards for writing and for film. His latest novel Compulsive draws us into the mind ofa compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, andseductively readable. Engelhard writes a weekly column for The Washington Times.