With the appearance of his latest novel, Lost Kingdoms, Phillip H. McMath has completed his fictional trilogy beginning with Native Ground (1984), then Arrival Point (1991). Now in Lost Kingdoms, the fictional Elizabeth Shaw flashes back via grief and remembrance on the death of her son, Christopher, the Marine hero of Native Ground killed in Vietnam. Through this medium of memory and loss is woven in the lives of several families (White, Black, and Red) the tragic story of Arkansas, the South, Southwest, and Mexico, which slowly emerges as a philosophical-historical tapestry not only as a tale uniquely its own but a comment on the meaning of history itself.

Phillip H. McMath, writer, trial lawyer, and Vietnam veteran, has combined an interest in history, his native South, and war to create a unique body of work in fiction, drama, and journalism. One critic said of his second novel, Arrival Point, that “Phillip McMath knows and evokes the diverse worlds of Vietnam, China, Russia, and Arkansas, and uses them adroitly as settings for a tale of intrigue, revenge, love, and human values.”