“A rollicking good tale with plenty of tension but also much humor,” concluded the publisher. “Your characters are well drawn and unique, …making for a strong story.”
In the 1950s, the start of the great American culture shift began. The boys and girls who would one day transform society still played cowboys and Indians, war, or hopscotch. Their parents, who spent the late forties celebrating after the gloom of the Great Depression and World War II, had by the middle of the next decade all but partied-out, but not so those privileged kids of the Greatest Generation.
In the aftermath of Tim and Hect’s adventures in "There Is a Generation," the two boys took different paths. Hect disappeared into the Mexican desert, last seen heading for a mysterious location known ominously as the "Camp." Tim returned home, to find his mother dismayed with her son’s antics and ready to teach him “a lesson of a lifetime.”
Only, what’s to be done with a willful rebel in 1950s West Texas? Why not do what every other frustrated parent does with their bad seeds and ship him off to the George S. Patton Military Academy? Those World War II hardened instructors will teach the little mischief-maker some discipline. The idea sounds abhorrent to Tim, however, who decides it’s time for him to skip town, head back to Juarez, Mexico, and somehow locate and rescue his best friend, Hect.
Unknown to Tim, however, Hect has arrived at the Camp, a paramilitary training ground dedicated to class warfare and the destruction of western society. Thoroughly indoctrinated, Hect now despises those born rich—including his old friend Tim, who finds himself shanghaied into the private army regardless of his wealthy background.
As Tim and Hect butt ideological heads, the two boys are selected for a dangerous mission—one which will see them coping with a delusional psychopath, a desert wasteland, and the Mexican army. Chances are they both will wind up dead. Maybe spending a few years in a Texas military school might not have been such a bad idea after all.

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