"Olaf Kroneman's pulverizing novel, DETROIT HEROIC, invites comparison to the subtitle of THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT by Norman Mailer: "History as a Novel ... the Novel as History." 

Before the 1970 Kent State massacre or Chicago's violent mayhem in '68, the insurrection in Detroit in 1967 reduced America's Motor City to ashes and rubble. Weeks of arson, riots, and chaos in Detroit (as well as Newark and other cities) fiercely contrasted the Summer of Love in California. 

In this vivid, panoramic novel, DETROIT HEROIC puts readers inside the racially charged and wretchedly excessive carnage-pitting police, National Guard and Army troops against their fellow citizens. The novel is narrated by a newly trained doctor whose several years in medical school kept him out of Vietnam — yet destined him to be an emergency medic as Detroit suffers the worst of the long, hot summers. 

Larger-than-life events bring out the worst and the best in Olaf Kroneman's characters: citizens and cops; older administrative medical staff and younger nurses and residents. All the above (and others) are grimly stunned when Detroit's summer '67 rebellion transforms their boiling urban melting pot into a cauldron of apocalyptic conflict.

History lovers and serious fiction fans will be grateful for this novel."

—M. J. Moore, author of HERSELF (A NOVEL OF SUMMER 1962) and MARIO PUZO: AN AMERICAN WRITER'S QUEST