About The Author
John Clarence
Born in Forty Fort, a small town in the hard coal region of Pennsylvania, I lived my youngest years there enjoying the benefits of the Susquehanna River, the worlds’ longest non-navigable river, 444 miles long with 4 million people living within its watershed. The Susquehanna has another impressive history; above its smooth flowing current towers the longest stone-arch bridge in the world. When our family moved away, 1 left behind my best friend, Fritz, and my first heart throb, Connie, a wonderful red hair, blue-eye young girl; we were in the fifth grade. As a writer, the move to Las Cruces was the backdrop for the remaining days of my life. I still live there.
When I arrived in Las Cruces in 2004, I moved into a private residence on Missouri Avenue; the Ova Noss Family Partnership (ONFP) work crew called an area of the residence the “War Room.” I left there two
years later and moved into White Sands Missile Range’s backyard and set up the second “War Room.”
The following year I moved back to Las Cruces into the third “War Room” and began an eight-year non-stop writing project on the Victorio Peak treasure saga. When I finished, I titled the volume, The Gold House,
a non-fiction three book exposé on government and military corruption in the theft of gold from the Noss treasure. Finally, in 2022, I left for Long Beach, California and worked out of the fourth “War Room” in Alex Alonso’s recording and film studio repairing video tapes and digitizing more than 55,000 ONFP documents and files. My name is John C. “Jack” Staley. I use the pseudonym, John Clarence, for all of my
written work.
