A TEXAS AWAKENING (The Englewood Series)

By Claude Morrison

In the spring of nineteen sixty four, after spending the last two years as an army advisor in Vietnam, former Green Beret Lieutenant Jeff Englewood returns to his mother's home in Midland, Texas. His first priority is the score he intends to settle with his bullying stepbrother Fats. And, despite however that encounter turns out, he plans to point Ol' Yeller, his fifty-eight yellow Ford Thunderbird toward Casper, Wyoming. There, his godfather and mentor, L.H. Brewster awaits his arrival.After all his teen years spent in a military school and six years in the army, all he wants is to be free from regimen. He wants to come and go as he damn well pleases, do whatever he damn well pleases, and not have to answer to a swinging dick. That was the plan.The three years following his discharge, Jeff learned that civilian life was not without its own demands, as he drilled in and around Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska. Finally, losing his beloved Ol' Yeller in a horrific crash, he learns the identity of the perpetrator of his near death experience, but has several months of recovery in which to plan his retaliation.Having fended off several unwanted marriage opportunities the last three years, he decides to leave the eastern slope of the Rockies, only to wind up married to a beautiful barmaid in Fort Worth.Now, Christmas nineteen sixty seven, finds him fresh out of jail in Wichita Falls, broke and jobless. His wife and new car has disappeared, and he has a scurrilous roughneck to deal with on the drilling rig where he secures a derrick job.He is slightly estranged from his mother. He thoroughly detests his stepfather, and his hatred for his bullying stepbrother has not diminished one iota. Nineteen sixty eight can only get better. Is he snake bit? Or is he his own worst enemy?It's time for a Jeff Englewood awakening.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521794448
• ISBN13: 9781521794449
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.7" x 8.5"