Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Untold Chronicles of Derek Deacon Rice

Long before the world knew him as the Yankee Doodle Dandy, Derek Deacon Rice was just the best athlete Mobile, Alabama had ever produced - a state champion quarterback who choreographed his sister's dance routines in his spare time and once talked an entire booster club into an existential crisis over their tailoring. Recruited by Alabama, then poached by the Pentagon before he ever saw an NFL contract, Derek became the country's most effective - and most opinionated - secret weapon: a black-ops asset who neutralizes hijackers, dictators, and doomsday scientists with the same relentless energy he brings to critiquing their cable management.Told through a lifelong friend's eyes, this is the untold history of a hero who refuses to be boxed in- a man who is, by his own insistence, entirely heterosexual, entirely unbothered by what anyone thinks about that, and entirely unwilling to let a bad Windsor knot slide, even in the middle of a hostage crisis. Equal parts action-comedy and send-up of superhero machismo, it's the story of the most fabulous, most lethal patriot America never expected.