Back To The World (Near To The Knuckle Novellas)

By James Shaffer

Johnnie Rae Piper is born in a tarpaper house off a dirt road in the Texas Panhandle just outside Amarillo. His mama, Jenny Piper, a midwife by trade, raises and home-schools him while his daddy, Tom Piper, is off fighting the Korean War. Tom comes home from Korea a changed man. He takes to drink and gambles away any money that comes his way. In 1969, a low draft lottery number sends Johnnie to Viet Nam. After 18 months in the jungle, Johnnie is discharged and comes back to the world, back to his home. But he soon discovers the world of war he left behind and the world at home, aren't that much different. He still has to fight. Ed Wills, the local loan shark, who answers to a crime organization that stretches across several states, comes to collect on his daddy's gambling debts, and the war starts all over again. Darlene, Jamie Sue and Kelly Jo, three cowgirls from Dallas, in their red, 1960 T-bird convertible help Johnnie escape the Texas mob, driving him into New Mexico. They're in for a wild ride, heading west on Route 66 and the setting sun. The Dallas cowgirls' dream is to make it to the Pacific Ocean. To make it happen, all Johnnie has to do was keep his eyes on the road behind for anything that might be coming up fast.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521131627
• ISBN13: 9781521131626
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.3"