Bounty Hunter Blues
The western Oklahoma panhandle was John Leslie’s home for many of his earliest years before south central Kansas claimed him from teens through college. Next Europe and the Middle East took over for more than ten years of seasoning. Then in the raucous ’70s, Key West got into John Leslie’s blood and has inspired him ever since. Ten novels, one written under the name David Bradley, were set in Key West or south Florida.  Most recently, he published Border Crossing, a coming-of-age novel that is winning praise from both readers and reviewers. Besides writing, he worked on one of the last of the great cattle ranches in the Wind River Range of the Wyoming Rockies; taught English in Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Iran; crisscrossed the country driving an eighteen-wheeler; and toiled in the commercial fishing industry for a few years. In short, the kind of work that once, until creative writing schools became fashionable, forged writers, and hopefully occasionally still does.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.