Family Secrets. The O’Connor family has secrets, They are real, they are harmful. The book "Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe" is a memoir that reveals the layers of bizarre circumstances that set a family on the run, hiding for decades. It is at once an intimate portrait of a loving but fractured and dysfunctional family and at the same time it connects the Red Scare and McCarthyism to the dangers of today’s Patriot Act.

Veteran journalist Mike O'Connor has spent most of a lifetime reporting for television, NPR and The New York Times. He's covered - and uncovered - the malfeasance of domestic politicians and public servants. He's been in the literal crossfire of Central American revolutions and in the war in the Balkans... Mike’s Bio

Now, Mike has written a book about his family’s secrets, so secret they were kept from him, and of his family's strange odyssey and perplexing mysteries. He peels away layer after layer of secrets and duplicity, of love and unremitting fear, and he discovers the FBI’s involvement and a family he never knew. About the Book