The author's work is narrative nonfiction that reads like creative fiction. He personally participated in the story which encompasses six months of what has been described by news journalists as "a revolution in microcosm" and "the bloodiest labor struggle since the Embarcadero strike of 1934." Beginning in March of 1970 Paul represented Local 35 of the International Longshore and Warehouseman's Union (ILWU) in a strike against Kerr-McGee, at the time the world's largest conglomerate. The strike took place in Trona, CA-also known as the "Gateway to Death Valley." During the course of the strike Paul was asked to speak at U.C.L.A. Law School and was met at the door with a sandwich-board sign which read "Today - Trona, Bloody Trona"-hence the title of the work was born. As a result of his student interaction, hundreds of students, mostly from U.C. campuses, came to Trona and spent the summer working on the strike. They did everything from researching Kerr-McGee for weak spots to setting up women's workshops (which led to child day care and "The Desert Daisies Dirt-bike Club," which still competes in the Mojave Desert to this day). With the help of Angela Davis, they also helped both women and men understand the concept that they were feeling but not yet able to understand or express-that what they were truly fighting for was a transition from capitalism to socialism. They wanted a piece of the profits. There are many highlights and outstanding features of the work: Two separate shootings of striking workers by security cops, numerous bombings and midnight raids on the homes of defenseless families, setting up of picket lines at Long Beach and San Pedro Harbors-which led to ships heading back to Hong Kong, and other foreign ports with their cargo holds empty-and a little bit of cattle rustling. The work touches on just about everything major in the late sixties and early seventies: the Beatles, the war in Vietnam, Kent State, Reagan's war on labor unions, UFOs, the failure of labor union leadership, and the widespread disregard of the law by law enforcers. The author braves divulging two "Top Secrets" he was involved in while serving as a spy in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and attached to the National Security Agency (NSA). Skeptical of his past government connections, the strikers grew confident in his involvement in the strike once he divulged a few dirty secrets of the government, like the murder of USAF pilots by the US Navy, or information about the murder of Dag Hammarskjöld, first Secretary General of the United Nations. It became clear that Paul was a friend of the underdog, and was willing to fight tyranny, despite its great personal costs.