In this book, "How We Saved Everyone's Ass," Mr. Slager recounts his experiences in the U.S. defense business during the Cold War. He also describes his experiences as a retired horseplayer and how he became interested in Taoism/Buddhism. He then presents a logical new version of Christianity/Taoism/Buddhism for Westerners and uses numerous examples from modern science and technology to prove ancient principles, which are intended to be either intuitively obvious or easy for modern Western readers to understand. "How We Saved Everyone's Ass" is based on the example of Han Shan, the mystical Buddhist/Taoist hermit poet and philosopher who lived on Cold Mountain near Mt. Tientai in today's Chekiang province sometime about 730 A.D.