A man for all seasons, in the winter of his discontent.For more than fifty years, Jonas McCord has wandered through the strange carnival of stage, screen, and television as a writer, producer, director, occasional journalist, reluctant public intellectual, and professional tilter at windmills.Along the way he survived a stint at ABC's 20/20, won enough awards to confuse airport security, and somehow became one of the world's leading voices on bio-metric weapons and smart-gun technology, even addressing the European Union on the subject, which proves civilization occasionally loses a dare.Before all that, he was a child prodigy on the violin, performing concerts at the age of five, back when everyone still believed genius was a blessing instead of a warning label.His career has included films, television series, historical dramas, political thrillers, documentaries, and the occasional nervous breakdown disguised as a screenplay.Somewhere in there he also managed to become a spectacular serial failure at marriage, though fortunately far more successful as the father of extraordinary children who continue to provide him with equal measures of love, humiliation, and unpaid technical support.