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Dan Dane received his BA from the University
of New Mexico and his JD from the University of Arkansas. He served with the 1st Cav in Vietnam
as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer trying war crimes. He returned to the United States to practice
law in Arkansas, Atlanta and Texas. He has extensive experience as a criminal defense lawyer, bank lawyer,
district attorney and judge. Dan Dane is the author of Fireflies in the Delta; Conduct to the Prejudice of Good
Order: The final years of the Vietnam War; and Bloodlines of Tyranny.
According to AudioFile Conduct
to the Prejudice of Good Order: The final years of the Vietnam War, “This intelligent and unblinking glimpse
of the final years of the Vietnam War is billed as a "JAG CORP" novel, but it's much more. This is the real
unvarnished deal. Unlike the glitzy television show "JAG," Army lawyer and draftee Captain William Blake is on the
muddy, loud, bloody, and many times, mundane front lines near Bien Hoa, facing endless streams of drug possession charges
and AWOL cases. Not a lawyer's paradise. Ross Ballard's youthful, engaging reading reflects Blake's path from
idealism to resignation to drama--as he is finally pushed to confront his superiors' apathy in his attempt to exonerate
a fellow soldier. The background jungle sounds and ubiquitous helicopters overhead mirror the book's gray realism, while
Mike Morningstar's poignant incidental music and final song add further to the heart-wrenching realization that nothing
was simple in Vietnam.”
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According to the book description Fireflies
in the Delta, “is an examination of why innocent inmates in jail confess to crimes they did not commit.
A deputy sheriff, motivated by an illicit love affair and hunger for power, gets an illiterate vagrant to confess to a murder
committed by his lover's brothers. A newly elected, idealistic District Attorney refuses to use the false confession as
the resolution of the case. This unwittingly draws him into a power struggle with the diabolical deputy and those in the criminal
justice system aligned with him. The resolution of this struggle may be too true to life for many readers.”
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