The wounded
By: Robert E. Townsend
Edition: First edition
Series: Long War series -- book 2
Publisher: Liar's Path Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Madison, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781493555000
Subjects: Baseball stories; Fiction
Description: “The Wounded” is the second book of Townsend&#x2019;s The Long War Series. Two young people, a brother and sister, die in a freak Lake Superior storm. Ricky Belisle, the accused murderer, is released from jail for lack of evidence. In shame he leaves his hometown to prove himself worthy; worthy of Marie Jeanne, 'M.J.', Charbonneau, his childhood 'buddy'; worthy of his family; worthy of his village. M.J. finds Ricky on a Colorado mountain where the nightmarish night repeats itself. Ricky and M.J. must overcome childhood terrors if they are to save one another. Ricky Belisle travels across the south and west of America, a minor league baseball player, seeking redemption before his family, his people, his Marie Jeanne. It is 1960, the nuclear age. His forebears far into the mists of time&#x2013;&#x2013;father, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and beyond&#x2013;&#x2013;had been warriors, which the world no longer needs. He encounters temptation and corruption and injustice, a south of explosive rage and hypocrisy. Injury and death lurk under each friendly grin.
Notes: Book 2 in a trilogy about deception and war and peace in a 20th century world of contrived and real moral ambiguities.