About The Sentinels Series

While the history of free enterprise is clearly dominated by many stories of high-minded success, it also includes situations where the resources made available by our system of free enterprise have been misdirected and badly manipulated in the pursuit of self-serving agendas, frequently achieved at the public’s expense.

Gordon Zuckerman believes the democratic free-enterprise system represents the goose that lays the golden eggs and that it needs to be protected from those who would abuse the privilege. He has used his writing easel to illustrate what can happen when these unfortunate events are allowed to occur and what can be done to remedy their threat.

Zuckerman writes his works of historical fiction with the informed eyes and ears of an international businessman who has a penchant for history. As a history buff all his life, with an entrepreneurial career that led him to deal routinely with Congress, presidential candidates, four-star generals, foreign leaders, bankers, the US Treasury Department, and a broad cross-section of American enterprise, he became aware of how a few powerful individuals can influence the fate of the world.

Gordon believes any book describing the introduction of and opposition to self-serving agendas must necessarily be a story about people. He has chosen to use the palette of historical events to create the plots of his books, but the stories are told through the intertwining lives of Jacques Roth, Mike Stone, and their high-minded, high-energy, smart, and resourceful problem-solving Sentinel teammates.

His first book, Fortunes of War, delves deeply into the key role played by money in Hitler’s attempt at world domination and how the loss of money helped bring him down.

In the second installment of the Sentinels series, Crude Deception, our heroes return in an epic battle against the Big Oil monopoly. As America's dependence on fossil fuels takes hold in the post-World War II climate of economic growth, seven major oil companies attempt to control 90% of the world’s oil production. In a plotline eerily reminiscent of today’s political climate, the Sentinels fan out across several continents in an intricately plotted mission to thwart Big Oil’s ambitions.

The third book in the series, Voices Behind the Curtain, focuses on the military industrial complexes’ desire, following World War II, to fan the public’s fear of spreading communism and to utilize its collective resources to lobby and elect officials to manipulate defense appropriations for their own self interests. The story is told through the lives of the Sentinels, who are strong, problem-solving, responsible leaders.

About the Author

From June 1963, following the author’s graduation from the Harvard Business School, until April 2005, when he sold his Resort Hotel company, Mr. Zuckerman enjoyed the privilege of working for forty-two years as a entrepreneurial problem solver during what many people regard as the Golden Age of American Commerce.

Throughout this period he was responsible for creating cattle feeding companies, student housing companies, a national joint-venture real estate investment company, and a resort hotel company. Through-out his career he would witness, hear, or become aware of major events that appeared to have a significant influence over people’s lives, some positive and some not so beneficial.

Provided with the free time of retirement, Mr. Zuckerman has concentrated his attention on researching contemporary events, the consequences of which, have been instrumental on peoples’ lives. He has concluded, while the history of free enterprise is clearly dominated by the many stories of high-minded success where the resources made available were organized to “Push Back the Desert”, and situations where the resources were misdirected and manipulated in the pursuit of self-serving agendas, frequently achieved at the public’s expense.

Becoming more familiar with the story behind the story, Zuckerman believes the democratic free enterprise system represents the goose that lays the ‘golden eggs’ and needs to be protected from those who would abuse the privilege.

He has used his writing easel to illustrate what can happen when a small fictional group, “The Six Sentinels” decide to help make-happen the constructive efforts and oppose those of questionable intentions. To create the plot for each of his books, the author has chosen to connect the dots of history. Any book describing the support or opposition to self-serving agendas must necessarily be a story about people. The stories are told through the evolving lives of fictional, high-minded, high-energy, creative problem solvers. The intrigue in their lives has been added to generate added interest for the reader who is interested in learning more about the cause and effects of some of the important events of our times.

Gordon Zuckerman, a graduate of Harvard Business School, has studied banking, international finance, and history extensively, focusing on how wealth and governmental machinations can advance private agendas that conflict with public interest. He lives with his wife in northern Nevada.

Gordon Zuckerman is the author of the acclaimed historical fiction series, The Sentinels.

Author Gordon Zuckerman has traveled extensively and is a life-long history buff. Having been made aware of the potential corrupting influence of concentrated wealth and power, he devoted over a decade studying some of history’s most important events. He’s developed an understanding of how concentrated industrial and financial influence, given the support of government, can pursue agendas of self-interest that can conflict with the public’s best interests.