Like A Rolling Stone - (The Boys of Uncle Sam) by Mark Howell (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Like the tagline says, this is "the mad misadventures of two English lads crossing America as the Rolling Stones." The rapscallions in the delightful novel find posing as famous rockers was an aphrodisiac to midwestern girl on their cross-country journey ... until facts of their impersonation catches up with them. But there is a prize waiting at the end of this pilgrimage: a slender blonde living in a treehouse. "Mark Howell is a gifted storyteller who will take you through an emotional gamut from laughter to tears," says Bill Craig, author of the Marlow and Chandler mysteries.

About the Author

It was as a student at Britain's Cambridge University that Mark Howell hitchhiked to Morocco and to Afghanistan. But his trip across America was made with a friend in an electric-blue Plymouth Savoy. In the 1970s, Howell's career in publishing began in Montreal and reached London, New York, Los Angeles and Toronto and proclaimed as "legendary" by Paperback Fanatic. In Florida in the 1980s, as editor and senior writer of the Key West arts and politics publication, Solares Hill, he won 17 journalism awards. Howell compiled and illustrated the banned "Thoughts of Sgt. Lennon" on John Lennon and is co-author of "The Men at Sylvia's Door" on the Kennedy assassination.