Cesare F. Rosati was born in Italy in 1946, and immigrated to the U.S. (Buffalo, NY) in 1956. A graduate of West Point (Class of 1970), he served in the U.S. Army until 1977. During military service, he obtained a Masters Degree in Electronics from Stanford University. In 1977, he joined the civilian side of government service, retiring in 1996 from the U.S. State Department, where he had served as the Head of a U.S. Delegation engaged in classified international negotiations.
Rosati has been writing for nearly 50 years, with his first foray into print being poetry. He has recently published a book of poetry for teenage boys.
“Very few people would think to do (a poetry book for them),” he said.
The book is entitled: Love & Life (Advice for a Teenage Boy). The poems are written from the perspectives of animate and inanimate objects, including a pair of blue jeans, an ex-girlfriend and a teacher.
Contact info:
Cesare F. Rosati
1187 Anglers Drive
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
www.steamboatwriters.com
(970) 846-9278
Cesare began writing a series of “near-future novels,” The Brock Saga, in the late 1990’s. Prairie Dogs PPL, the first in the series of five, was published in 2005 and has been well
received (see the synopsis and review below). The second novel, Adriana (SV-1),
followed in 2006, along with a collection of poetry written specifically for teenage boys.
The third book in Cesare’s Brock Saga series, Brockport, FS, was published in 2012.
The fourth, MMC Explorer, was published in 2015, and the fifth and final book,
Inspector Brock, SPF, followed in 2016.
The first book in the series, Prairie Dogs, PPL, is now available as an e-book from
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple.
Other books by Cesare:
Cesare’s latest novel, It’s Called ‘A Cull’, was published in 2020. Readers will find this a very engaging tale in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“When Stanford University history student Luke Kanter explores the cave closed since his father’s death a decade earlier, he finds a file containing a letter from his long-dead father that changes his life from that of a carefree student of history into becoming an active agent in what will become history. Within six months, upon reaching the age of 21, the ring that has been passed down through generations will be placed upon his finger. With it comes the decision-making leadership of an ancient, secret society, headquartered in Porto, Portugal. Its mission: to insure the survival of mankind. Its method: to be determined.
Two opposing factions within the society vie for the ring bearer’s nod. The Agris, based in Stockholm, Sweden believe that through agricultural and technological developments, food supplies and distribution can keep up with population growth. The Runcos, headquartered in Sydney, Australia believe that a periodic cull is required in order to keep food supplies and population growth in balance. An international struggle ensues, then intensifies even to the point of murder and threats to young Luke’s life.
Eerily pertinent to this 21st century’s health crisis and a deepening political morass, the possibility of a worldwide pandemic engages a worldwide cast of characters.”
— Harriet Freiberger, author of Lucien Maxwell, Villain or Visionary
In 2018, Cesare published The Accidental President.
An early review of this book follows:
Once again, author Cesare F. Rosati dives into the politics of Washington, D.C. and the reader cannot resist following newswoman Maggie Pierce into the depths of an enlarging quagmire. As the Republican National Convention approaches, one of Ohio Senator George Cranston’s interns contacts Maggie about his discovery that the senator had rigged the bidding process for the upcoming high-speed rail project in California. Two weeks later the young man’s body is found, another unsolved homicide on the city’s list, and the players in Rosati’s newest novel converge
As the diverse collection of Presidential candidates struggle for the nomination, Maine’s votes remain uncommitted until their senator places himself on the ballot as a write-in candidate. Within a matter of days, delegates and the country-at-large meet and come to know David Kenneth (Deke) McKinney.
Amid the crosscurrents of political infighting, this fast-moving story travels the streets of Washington, D.C. With a rare double vision, the author parallels past and present. Deke’s history advances through his high school years in Auburn, Maine, his service in the U.S. Special Forces, to the inaugural platform in Washington, D.C. In “now” time, Senator George Cranston feeds his rapacious appetite for power. Chapter by chapter, the spotlight brightens on the new president.
Readers will sit back and smile at Cesare Rosati’s surprising conclusion, a confluence of the multiple flows that carry an “accidental” and trustworthy president into the oval office.
— Harriet Freiberger, author of Lucien Maxwell: Villain or Visionary
The Brock Saga Series:
Prairie Dogs PPL
Synopsis
Contrary to visions conjured up by the title this novel is neither a western nor a story about a small town in mid-America. Rather, it tells a tale of the scientific and business development of a new space launch technology wrapped in political intrigue.
As a feisty entrepreneur takes on the military-industrial complex (MICs) in court in order to open up the space launch business to purely civilian firms, a surprise player, the BTP Corporation, quietly awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on the case. Under the leadership of its President and CEO, Christopher Brock, BTP has spent decades on a secret project that rocks the establishment within days of the Supreme Court decision.
The ‘present’ in the book is the year 2012. It is a typical election year, with the all-powerful MICs contributing heavily to the re-election campaign of the incumbent president. Following the court’s decision, and the announcement by the BTP Corp., the Administration and its allies scramble to deal with the fallout. In so doing, they reveal the convoluted, and often petty interagency processes that lead to governmental policy. The interactions among elected officials, the entrenched bureaucracy, an incendiary news media and the industrial lobbyists create a lively, vivid, and highly-charged political thriller.
Perhaps most surprising in this novel is the quality of the dialogue. Constructing casual, conversational dialogue is difficult. Not so for this author, who crafts dialogue that is true to his characters and enjoyable to read. Interestingly, it is primarily the dialogue that carries the story. Descriptors are used sparingly; sufficient to set the stage and add context, but never so detailed as to slow the action.
Without alien invaders and far-out science, it is the realistic application of existing technologies that pushes the highly-believable story into the near-future.
Prairie Dogs PPL is available as an E-book.
Review of Prairie Dogs, PPL
By Jennifer Harper
Summit Daily News October 6, 2005
DILLON – Unlike the futuristic science fiction movies and novels of the 1980s and ’90s that showed everyone wearing silver metallic jumpsuits and sitting behind the wheels of flying cars, Cesare F. Rosati’s near-future novel set in 2012 is an intelligent, political thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
The book, which takes readers inside private Washington, D.C., offices, covers business, politics, the military and, of course, the media after a court decision is made in favor of private space launches. The idea came from Rosati’s interest in science fiction for the last 20 years, along with his background in the military and government service. He attended West Point and served in the army until 1977, when he joined the civilian side of government with the U.S. State Department as the head of a delegation engaged in classified international negotiations. He retired in 1995 and turned to novel writing three years later.
“I intended to write a science fiction story, but it became a political thriller because of my background,” he said. “People who have read it really enjoyed it because of that.”
The book is written mostly through dialogue and action, with little description, making for an easy read.
“Once you look at this book, you see it’s really written to be a television series or a movie,” said Steamboat Springs resident Rosati. He added that he will probably spend some time promoting the book in the film or television arena.
Prairie Dogs PPL is actually the first in a five-part series of books Rosati has planned. He said he told himself he wouldn’t try to publish the first book until he had written the first three in the series. Once he completed the third, he switched gears from writing to publishing. He plans to release the books a year apart from each other, and he’s already up to chapter four in the fourth book. He said it takes him about 18 months to write a book.
Adriana (SV-1):
The feisty group of entrepreneurs, led by Christopher Brock of the BTP Corporation, who
took on the military industrial complex (MIC’s) in Mr. Rosati’s first near-future novel, Prairie
Dogs PPL, and succeeded in building Earth’s first privately owned space launch facility, are
back.
In this second near-future novel, they set their sights on building a totally independent
village in space. National and international conglomerates vie for advantage as the private BTP
Corporation creates the infrastructure and recruits experts from around the world. The large US
corporations, known as the MIC’s, are still stinging from the loss of their space launch
monopoly, and will stop at nothing to secure their financial bottom lines. With their man in the
White House, they press the US government to insure that they receive more than their fair share
of any contracts for new space ventures.
The Washington Post’s investigative reporter, Samantha Jamison, is back. When an
employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) contacts her with news of foul play by one of
his political bosses, she embarks on a series of exposé’s that threaten to bring down politicians at
the highest levels.
As with his first novel, Mr. Rosati has chosen to provide a realistic view of the near
future by writing a political thriller fraught with ‘politics as usual’, on both the national and
international level. The little science fiction he includes adds to the realism of the story by not
resorting to aliens or far-out technologies. He simply pushes current technological trends to
logical conclusions.
The book covers the period from the year 2012 to 2028.
Brockport, FS
Review:
In the year 2028, the American dream reaches a new level with completion of the first space village, Adriana. The orbiting city carries the name of the woman most responsible for its construction, Adriana Brock, the visionary wife of U.S. corporate icon Christopher Brock. In this third book of Cesare Rosati’s expedition into the near-future world, the village’s self-governing population seeks its place in the United Nations. Adriana’s mayor, Gina Brock Schiller, struggles against the powerful U.N. Secretary-General as well as an insidious and murderous plot by a
small group of nations to thwart its successful independence. Faced with the threat of military attack from Earth, the Adrians launch a desperate and highly secretive plan to leave Earth orbit for a more secure location in space known as L5.
Readers cannot resist being fascinated by the idea that a self-supporting community not only exists, but thrives, in outer space. Political intrigue on Adriana replicates life as we know it here on earth at the beginning of the 21st century, but the successful Brock family rises above the fray to stand against the old ways. Rosati’s glimpse into the future coincides with present-day construction of commercial spaceports, and the potential reality of a New Frontier.
— Harriet Freiberger, author of Lucien Maxwell, Villain or Visionary
MMC Explorer:
In 2071, Adriana, the first permanent self-sustaining colony in space, no longer orbits earth. It has moved to a new location called L5. A UN treaty delineates the moon’s surface into Near-Side (Earth’s) and Far-side (Adriana’s). Ongoing animosity has prevented any official contact between their respective settlements – until now. The promise- or threat- of normalized relations between Adriana and Earth escalates when the space-pioneering Brock family instigates a realignment of Australia’s borders and, at the same time, develops an outer-space source of precious ores. With political and economic machinations entangling Cesare Rosati’s widespread cast of characters, their too-often devious goals remain unrevealed until the final pages of this journey into the future.
— Harriet Freiberger, author of Lucien Maxwell, Villain or Visionary
Move over Isaak Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Frank Herbert. Make room for a fourth at the table. Cesare Rosati has earned a seat. His dream of habitation and commerce beyond Earth’s boundaries continues — complete with high-tech and believable space travel, secret criminal societies, crooked politicians, betrayers, smugglers, assassins, a race to exploit riches in space, and…a family dynasty of mostly good guys. As always, he transports the present seamlessly into the not too distant future.
There’s a fertile mind at work here. Enjoy the richness of its harvest.
— Graydon Dee Hubbard, author of Charlie’s Pride and Slim to None
Inspector Brock, SPF
As the 21st century comes to a close, Joseph Brock, a graduating cadet from the Solar Police Academy’s class of 2098, joins Transport Security determined to put an end to space piracy. Joey’s great-grandparents, Christopher Brock and his wife, Adriana, created Earth’s first civilian space launch facility back in the year 2012. Humanity has since expanded to colonies on the Moon as well as villages in space and mining operations on various asteroids. A secret underworld criminal organization from Earth, known as The Quad, has also expanded into space.
The newly commissioned Second Lieutenant Brock is propelled into the intra-Quad’s rivalry as an elusive sniper targets the shadowy group’s higher ups. One way or another, the competitors meet their match. Readers of Cesare Rosati’s earlier four books in this series will enjoy the author’s signature finale as the Family Brock blasts into the 22 nd Century. Newcomers will travel through an unexpected geographical maze — St. Petersburg, Russia; Pretoria, South Africa; Tokyo. Japan; Vladivostok, Russia; Taipei, Taiwan; and of course Washington, DC and New York City – before comprehending Rosati’s trademark description of those who stand opposite the Brocks, “Truth,” says the SPF General, “is a rather flexible concept for these people.”
— Harriet Freiberger, author of Lucien Maxwell, Villain or Visionary