Mortal Leap

<p>A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant''s wife. In a moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant''s identity, to return with her to California and take on his life.</p><p><strong>Mortal Leap</strong> may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series <em>Mad Men</em>. What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To step into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up?</p><p>Decades before <em>Mad Men</em>, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, <strong>Mortal Leap</strong> has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, <strong>Boiler House Press''s</strong> Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.</p>