THERE IS A GENERATION by WH Buzzard is the first in a four book series satirizing Baby Boomers, the 1950's offspring of the Greatest Generation who grew into the 1960’s rebels that changed America forever. Best friends Tim and Hect happen upon an abandoned auto junkyard and switched from rabbit hunting to a game of “War” with their semi-automatic .22 caliber rifles. The fun abruptly ends, however, as a boyish prank goes badly awry. They decide to set fire to a pillbox bunker, actually an old deserted shack, and burn the enemy out. The boys fashion a Molotov cocktail from gas out of a wrecked truck and heave the bomb at the structure. The dry sun-baked wood bursts into flames faster than a pile of tumbleweeds. To their utter horror a fire-engulfed figure appears in a window of the shanty-inferno. Believing they just burned alive a hobo using the place for a shelter and fearing they will end up on a hot-seat called "Sparky," the popular nickname for the electric chair at Huntsville prison, the two flee into the desert. Now believing themselves fugitives from the law they must leave behind their self-centered lives of ease and carefree devilment. Neither could be less prepared to suffer hunger and thirst, merciless desert heat and life on the road, not to mention encountering con artists, wily street people, and never before imagined poverty and slums, plus the mean streets of what they thought to be "the wrong side of the tracks." Thus begin a series of adventures, or perhaps mis adventures is a better description, through West Texas, New Mexico, and finally into Mexico itself where they are shanghaied into a training facility for anarchists called The Camp. Oh, my, what are those two into next? For more information go to thereisageneration.com An amusing coming-of-age travel adventure. Two teenage boys see the many facets of 1950s America in Buzzard's caper-filled debut novel. Young Texans Tim and Hect are friends despite being from different sides of the tracks. After they burn down an empty shack, they think that they've accidentally killed a homeless man, so they go on the run. Intending to separately hitchhike their way to El Paso, they each run into increasingly intriguing and bizarre strangers. Tim winds up in Colorado, and then New Mexico, hitching rides with a touring band and the rich guardian of a Janpanese World War II general's son. Hect falls into the path of T.J. and Becca, a father-and-daughter grifter team, who adopt him into their plans. Becca's intense desire to be a movie star eventually leads her to run away with Hect; soon, they meet up with Tim, and the trio try to con their way through Juarez, Mexico, but quickly run into difficulty. Tim and Hect's friendship is threatened by jealousy and resentment, and they soon find themselves in bigger trouble than they could ever have imagined. When they split up once more, Tim must do whatever he can to survive his trip home. The real strength of the story doesn't come from Tim and Hect themselves; their mishaps, close calls, and rich-kid and poor-kid mannerisms. Instead, the book's power comes from the colorful characters that the boys meet on their adventures. The two cut a vibrant swath through the United States and Mexico. "An amusing coming-of-age travel adventure. Two teenage boys see the many facets of 1950s America in Buzzard's caper-filled debut novel. The book's power comes from the colorful characters that the boys meet on their adventures cutting a vibrant swath through West Texas and Mexico." - Kirkus Reviews "Laugh-out-loud funny by a master storyteller."- Leslie Davis Guccione, author of Private Practice "Overall it is a good book and if the beginning was a little less confusing I would have given it 5 stars. I still recommend this book because it was lots of laughs." - S.L Vilkman, Book Reviewer, Private Practice The Kids of the Greatest Generation series by WH Buzzard are for those who enjoyed the antics and characters found in Mark Twain's and Joseph Heller's portraits of two pivotal generations. A satire of a third pivotal generation, that of the 1950's,  THERE IS A GENERATION   I, II, III,  and eventually  IV  are tongue-in-cheek looks at the kids of the heroes who triumphed in World War II, survived The Great Depression, and rebuilt Germany and Japan, while their materialistic kids, in their time, accomplished rock'n'roll, souped-up hot rods, the bop, and evolved into the 1960's rebels who would change American values forever one day. One of a series of four satires about the offspring of those heroes who survived the Great Depression, triumphed in World War II, and rebuilt Europe and Japan. A tongue-in-cheek look at 1950's Baby Boomers who accomplished in their time rock'n'roll, souped-up hot rods, the bop, and grew to become the 1960's rebels who would revolutionize American values. A willful, unmanageable teenager headed for destruction once asked an old man who'd taken an interest how to escape his unruly habits,