Jerry Strayve, Jr.
About Former Marine Captain Jerome R. Strayve, Jr. Served with Ted Blickwedel when both were young lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Forty years later their paths crossed again. This led the two of them to co-author Blickwedel’s story in Broken Promises.Strayve was born to a nomadic military family, attending nine schools before entering college. Following service in the United States Marine Corps, he raised a family while working as a financial representative and serial entrepreneur. Raising his young children, he discovered his talent for ‘spinning tales,’ regaling them with spontaneous bedtime stories.Soon his passion for history spoke to him and he jumped into writing. His fiction works include the first two books in a four-book series, ‘Braxton’s Century. Book three in the series will be published in February 2023. He published First Spouse of The United States in 2019 and is releasing the sequel, POTUS DOWN, in the fall of 2022.