What A Fool Believes - by John Horak (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For many of us, our high school days can best be summarized as a time of personal growth, frequent confusion, raging hormones and an incomplete or limited understanding of what life entrails. The Sac Prairie High School Class of 1973 was no different in most regards from thousands of other graduating classes except for one glaring exception. The class was torn apart by a vindictive Homecoming prank orchestrated by its male members, creating a divide the size of the Grand Canyon within and among male and female members.

Subsequent class reunions were marked less by a celebration of fellowship and more by continued animosity over real and imagined past harbored slights. The story might well end there except for the heinous act of international terrorism committed on August 18, 2018 during the 45th class reunion. Unbeknownst to the attendees at that time, the foreign exchange student, a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist, with unbridled hatred for his former classmates, decided to ensure that this was the last reunion courtesy of the explosive conclusion to the evening he had meticulously planned.

While the basic facts have been reported ad nauseam, the shocking events of that night and their subsequent impact on the surviving members of the class and the communities remained a closely guarded mystery. Like the sea retains its dead in Davey Jones locker, small towns retain their own secrets. It's well past time that the rest of the world finally hears the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

What A Fool Believes gives a compelling account of the shocking events of this infamous international terrorism incident delivering the most accurate intimate perspectives as told by surviving participants. Join the Class Clown, the IT girl, the Stoner, the BMOC, Miss Congeniality, the Music Man, the Multi-Millionaire, the Farmer, the Gossip Girl and a host of others, if you dare to learn this amazing story. Follow these individuals from the people they once were, people that each of us encountered to some degree during our own high school years, to the people they've become.

The story is a cornucopia of emotions, the battle between good versus evil, courage and heroism in the face of the unimaginable danger, enduring love, unrequited love, loss, hope and ultimately, redemption.

The deep thinker of the class lived by the motto "everything will be all right" but will it? Or is this just what a fool believes? The answer, along with the strategic use of bubble wrap, will likely surprise.