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Finding Billy Battles is the sweeping story of a man whose deeds and misdeeds propel him on an extraordinary and perilous journey from the untamed American West of the 1890s to the inscrutable Far East. The story begins when Billy's great-grandson inherits two trunks filled with the detritus of a century-long life, including a number of meticulously detailed and shocking journals that reveal several violent confrontations and horrific incidents previously lost to history.
p class="MsoNormal">When a great-grandson inherits two aging trunks and a stack of meticulously detailed journals penned by his great-grandfather, he sets out to fulfill his great-grandfather's last request: to tell the story of an incredible life replete with adventure, violence, and tragedy. The great-grandfather's name is Billy Battles--a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control.
p class="MsoNormal">For much of his 100-year-long life Billy is a man missing and largely unknown to his descendants. His great-grandson is about to change that. As he works his | |  | | The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles
As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens Billy is far from his Kansas roots—and his improbable journeys are just beginning. It is 1894 and he is aboard an ocean liner sailing to the Mysterious East (Hong Kong, French Indochina, and the Philippines), among other places. Along the way Billy meets a mysterious, dazzling, and possibly dangerous German Baroness and locks horns with malevolent agents of the German government. Later, he is inadvertently embroiled in the bloody anti-French insurgency in Indochina–which makes him the first American combatant in a country that eventually will become Vietnam.
Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore.
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p class="MsoNormal">As Book 2 of the i>Finding Billy Battles/i> trilogy opens, Billy is far from his Kansas roots—and his improbable journeys are just beginning. He is aboard an ocean liner sailing to the Mysterious East (Hong Kong, French Indochina, and the Philippines), among other places.
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p class="MsoNormal">o:p> /o:p>The year is 1894 and aboard the S S i>China/i> Billy meets a mysterious, dazzling, and possib | |  | | The Lost Years of Billy Battles
As Book 3 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy begins, it is 1914 and Billy is living peacefully in Chicago with his wife, Katharina. That tranquility is disrupted by a telephone call from a powerful old friend that yanks Billy and Katharina back into a life of havoc and peril in Mexico during the height of its violent 1910-1920 revolution.
Where in the world is Billy Battles?
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">As Book Three of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy begins we know where Billy is. He is in Chicago with his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber living a sedate and comfortable life after years of adventure and tragedy. That changes with a single telephone call that yanks Billy and Katharina back into a life of turmoil and peril.o:p>/o:p>
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