I lay down and read this last night, three hours, straight through and I was *riveted* the entire time. This is a wonderful, wonderful story. It's beautifully written, there isn't a single moment that feels out of time or place, which is really tricky to accomplish when you're writing in the 1950s and 1970s. Most of all you've created two OCs who are not only fully realized, wonderfully drawn characters, but you made me care about them as much as I did about Bodie and Doyle. And this is your first Big-bang? Well done, very, very, very well done....