Gus Lee is the best-selling author of four novels, a memoir, and a character-based leadership book, and is a leadership and character-advancement consultant. Married for 36 years with four children and two grandchildren, he has been a corporate COO, EVP, senior executive, acting deputy attorney general, supervising deputy district attorney, JAG and infantry officer, drill sergeant, paratrooper, university assistant dean, was West Point's first Chair of Character Development and runs Leaders of Character LLC. Born into a broken Chinese immigrant family in a poverty-stricken African American 'hood, he was mentored by the YMCA and H. Norman Schwarzkopf to be part of a hope-filled American story.