Meet local author Charles “Chips” Lickson

Local author Charles “Chips” Lickson will be at the Royal Oak Bookshop on December 14th, from 2pm to 4pm, to sign his new book, “A Warrior of Many Faces: An American Clandestine Operative in Cuba and Beyond.”

His book is a saga of the real-life JC Herbert Bryant and the beginning of his long and distinguished military and government career. The story starts when JC is a 17 year old Navy Seaman who is the leading character in a compelling series of life threatening adventures beginning in Guantanamo, Cuba. As a young Seaman, JC, with the blessing of U.S. authorities, had covert dealings with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara while also engaging in combat missions with rebel soldiers in the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Eastern Cuba.

This book tells the JC story. While written in the style of a fact-based fiction, everything that is described really happened.

Lickson is a former practicing lawyer, federal judge’s law clerk, U.S. Army officer, mediator and adjunct associate professor of political science at Shenandoah University.

Mark you calendar for December 14th to meet the author at his book signing, at Royal Oak Bookshop, 207 S Royal Avenue in Front Royal.