This is the cover art for both the paperback and the ebook for my memoir,
RATTLESNAKE DREAMS An American Warrior's story. The art work you see is by
Cruz Ortiz Zamarrón, an artist who is also a friend of many years. When it was time
to do the cover, I sent him my text version of the dream that was the genesis of this
book, and asked him to read it, then paint it. He exceeded my expectations. He painted
the entire story of the dream (long dream; long story), as reflected in the eye of the
giant rattlesnake with whom my young self was having a heart to heart talk in the
burning Vietnamese village of Tho An... that dream, which I've called "Rattlesnake and
Pistol," occurs at the end of the book. The young man in the painting, with the pistol, is the Dean
from the dream....