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Like the tagline says, this is "the mad misadventures of two English lads crossing America as the Rolling Stones." The rapscallions in the delightful novel find posing as famous rockers was an aphrodisiac to midwestern girl on their cross-country journey ... until facts of their impersonation catches up with them. But there is a prize waiting at the end of this pilgrimage: a slender blonde living in a treehouse. "Mark Howell is a gifted storyteller who will take you through an emotional gamut from laughter to tears," says Bill Craig, author of the Marlow and Chandler mysteries.

Witness the harrowing adventures of a young man of 17 as he stumbles his way through World War II. Beginning his military life in North Africa, March, 1943, his journey takes him across the deserts of Algeria, into France, and into the worst winter battle American troops had ever experienced, the Battle of the Bulge. A winter offensive meant to deal a heavy blow to the allied armies, and hand the initiative in the west back to the Germans.