Into No Man's Land
It's 1989, and Nick Becker has left a promising career as a big city newspaperman to fight for his family's old farmstead in Northern Michigan. While developers and lawyers wrangle over the remnants of this last, best property along the Lake Michigan shore, Nick tries to unravel a legal mess caused by his grandfather's curious will.

While Nick chases stories for the local paper, he also digs through five cardboard boxes of old letters, photographs, and documents left to him by a recently deceased aunt. There he discovers the extraordinary lives of his grandparents--Col. Joe Becker and Anna Johnson Becker. Joe's career, which spans nearly half a century, includes service in every branch of the military.

Joe and Anna's lives unfold before Nick's eyes as he follows their journey from the North Woods logging boom of the early 1900s to the decks of the last Navy ship to cruise the Great Lakes...from a remote garrison in Cuba to the U.S. Cavalry's last campaign chasing Pancho Villa's renegades into Mexico...from the deadlocked World War I trenches of Alsace-Lorraine into the most decisive battle of the "War to End All Wars."

As Joe and Anna's lives intersect with American icons such as Ernest Hemingway, Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler, George Patton, and Gen. Pershing, Nick unearths long-buried secrets that have a more profound impact on his present troubles than he ever bargained for
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Into No Man's Land
It's 1989, and Nick Becker has left a promising career as a big city newspaperman to fight for his family's old farmstead in Northern Michigan. While developers and lawyers wrangle over the remnants of this last, best property along the Lake Michigan shore, Nick tries to unravel a legal mess caused by his grandfather's curious will.

While Nick chases stories for the local paper, he also digs through five cardboard boxes of old letters, photographs, and documents left to him by a recently deceased aunt. There he discovers the extraordinary lives of his grandparents--Col. Joe Becker and Anna Johnson Becker. Joe's career, which spans nearly half a century, includes service in every branch of the military.

Joe and Anna's lives unfold before Nick's eyes as he follows their journey from the North Woods logging boom of the early 1900s to the decks of the last Navy ship to cruise the Great Lakes...from a remote garrison in Cuba to the U.S. Cavalry's last campaign chasing Pancho Villa's renegades into Mexico...from the deadlocked World War I trenches of Alsace-Lorraine into the most decisive battle of the "War to End All Wars."

As Joe and Anna's lives intersect with American icons such as Ernest Hemingway, Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler, George Patton, and Gen. Pershing, Nick unearths long-buried secrets that have a more profound impact on his present troubles than he ever bargained for
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Into No Man's Land

Into No Man's Land

by Richard C. Bachus
Into No Man's Land

Into No Man's Land

by Richard C. Bachus

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Overview

It's 1989, and Nick Becker has left a promising career as a big city newspaperman to fight for his family's old farmstead in Northern Michigan. While developers and lawyers wrangle over the remnants of this last, best property along the Lake Michigan shore, Nick tries to unravel a legal mess caused by his grandfather's curious will.

While Nick chases stories for the local paper, he also digs through five cardboard boxes of old letters, photographs, and documents left to him by a recently deceased aunt. There he discovers the extraordinary lives of his grandparents--Col. Joe Becker and Anna Johnson Becker. Joe's career, which spans nearly half a century, includes service in every branch of the military.

Joe and Anna's lives unfold before Nick's eyes as he follows their journey from the North Woods logging boom of the early 1900s to the decks of the last Navy ship to cruise the Great Lakes...from a remote garrison in Cuba to the U.S. Cavalry's last campaign chasing Pancho Villa's renegades into Mexico...from the deadlocked World War I trenches of Alsace-Lorraine into the most decisive battle of the "War to End All Wars."

As Joe and Anna's lives intersect with American icons such as Ernest Hemingway, Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler, George Patton, and Gen. Pershing, Nick unearths long-buried secrets that have a more profound impact on his present troubles than he ever bargained for

Product Details

BN ID: 2940157378592
Publisher: Hellgate Press
Publication date: 01/12/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 530
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Richard C. Bachus has been a professional journalist, English teacher, and advertising copywriter for nearly three decades He’s had thousands of articles, essays, and marketing campaigns published around the world by media such as the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Ski, the Detroit Free Press, Traverse, Pacific Builder & Engineer, Triathlete, and the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

As the descendant of four generations of U.S. soldiers, Mr. Bachus lives a peaceful life in the woods of Northern Michigan with his small family—living in a house not unlike “The Shack” depicted in the pages of this novel. Joe and Anna Becker are fictional versions of Mr. Bachus’s real grandparents, whose Great War experiences are chronicled on the U.S. WWI Centennial Commission’s blog.
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