American Shooter

An emotional father-son relationship saga about an absentee Pulitzer winning combat photographer father, transformed and reduced through the years from an idealist to a burned-out drunk, who, despite the brilliance of his work documenting the suffering of the civilian populations caught in the crossfire of war, had failed to make a difference changing the world with the lens of his camera, and is therefore determined to discourage his son from following in his footsteps. A father who seeks forgiveness, an arrogant, resentful, rebellious son who lacks the maturity to forgive, and is determined to follow his life path as a combat photojournalistic, setting the stage for a powerful emotional struggle between the father and son, each anchored in the truth of their conflicting values. Warned by his father that all he represents to a local girl is a ticket up north, in defiance, the son falls in love and will pay a price, but amid the violence and tragedy of a brutal civil war in Central America, there is love, forgiveness, and ultimately, redemption before it is too late. Jon was inspired to write the eBook, which is based on his IN MY FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS (c) screenplay, because he never had a relationship with his father, and never told his dad that he loved him. His father was an honest and hard working good man who lost Jon's mom right after she gave birth to him, which must have devastated his father who had loved her greatly. His dad married a divorced woman and mother to a child four years Jon's senior. The stepmother was cruel both to Jon and his father. Jon resented his father for not standing up to this brutal evil woman when she beat him as a child, and abused him as teen. Following one ugly incident, Jon told his dad that he hated him prior to permanently running away from home at the age of 16. As an adult, Jon realized his father's predicament in life wanting to provide him with a mother, and in time Jon came to regret never having tried to understand the pain his dad was living with. But most of all, Jon was burdened by the guilt of not telling him that his suffering father that he loved him, as imperfect a dad that he was. AMERICAN SHOOTER is Jon's homage to the lost relationship with his dad, and dedicated to the memory of his beautiful mother, who he never had the opportunity to meet due to her premature passing at the age of 27.