The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles: Book 2 Finding Billy Battles Trilogy

Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore. As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens Billy is far from his Kansas roots-and his improbable journeys are just beginning. He is aboard an ocean liner sailing to the Mysterious East (Hong Kong French Indochina and the Philippines) among other places. The year is 1894 and aboard the S S China Billy meets a mysterious dazzling and possibly dangerous German Baroness locked horns with malevolent agents of the German government and battled ferocious Chinese and Malay pirates in the South China Sea. Later he is inadvertently embroiled in the bloody anti-French insurgency in Indochina-which quite possibly makes him the first American combatant in a country that eventually will become Vietnam. Later in the Philippines he is thrust into the Spanish-American War and the anti-American insurgency that follows. But Billys troubles are just beginning. As the 19th century ends and the 20th century begins he finds himself entangled with political opportunists spies revolutionaries and an assortment of malevolent and dubious characters of both sexes. How will Billy handle those people and the challenges they present?