Monarchs and Mendicants
Monarchs and Mendicants
by Dan Groat
A Journey from Tragedy to Triumph
From Despair to Hope
Navy Seal, Gifford Ulrich, returns to St. Louis from Afghanistan and tries to resume his old life, but the war within leaves him homeless and seeking only to survive. The Hacker is killing the homeless and Movay, the boss of the Benoit neighborhood, is abusing them. Gifford's new "friends" need him, and soon he realizes, to make the passage from tragedy to triumph, he must fight his way from despair to hope.