Darryl Ponicsán

Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia-Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall-are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence...

This Sequel to the Acclaimed Cult Novel Is Now a Major Motion Picture Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-it was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson....

"Following a rewrite job in New York City, veteran screenwriter D. K. Kecskeméti finds himself not in his home in Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town, where he's greeted by an obsequious houseman who informs that his wife, Hope, is gone. The note she left reveals that she's on a retreat to deal with a personal crisis of which DK was somehow unaware. Confused and disoriented, unable to sleep, he wanders the deserted streets....

Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...

When his ship docked in Seattle, Navy man John Boggs, Jr. has a "Cinderella Liberty" pass, meaning he can be out until midnight - so he intends to make the most of his evening. Things are clearly going his way when he "wins" call girl Maggie in a pool game. But once Boggs finds out that Maggie has an 11-year-old son and a baby on the way, he backs off. He is anxious to rid himself of complications he just can't contend with. What he does not count...

Two hard-boiled petty officers are detailed to take a young sailor from a Virginia naval base to a New Hampshire naval prison to serve an eight year sentence for a trivial offense, but first they decide to give the prisoner one last good time.

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.