Claire Wheatley: 2 books

In late-Depression America, a “big-time” writer oddly joins two hardtimes-smart westerners on what begins as a cheap publicity-stunt tour of twelve western national parks. Wild and finally catastrophic misadventures follow at Yosemite, Hollywood (side-trip for a movie deal) and Yellowstone among others. When the trip is over nothing will ever be the same, including America.

A Riviera villa. An author in the great tradition and a beautiful girl. A bizarre plot. Betrayed, he disappears. Tiime passes. A musungu (white) "goes tropical" in a remote Ethiopian village. Chance word of new wrongs brings roars of laughter. Marseilles. A shadowy figure lands.