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Jack Woodville London

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Jack Woodville London is the author of five novels and winner of the Foreword Reviews Literary Award.  He speaks to literary, historical, and military groups and gave the keynote address at the 80th D-Day Memorial Service at the American Military Cemetery in Normandy, France. He is the Director Emeritus of Writing Education for the Military Writers Society of America. His nonfiction book, A Novel Approach, is the text adopted by the MWSA to introduce veterans to the basics of writing. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Schedule

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Generational Dangers: Outlaws, Spies, and Texans Across the Decades
Jack Woodville London, Dangerous Latitudes: A Novel
Phil Oakley, Runners
with moderator Karen O’Connell

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Dangerous Latitudes: A Novel

Espionage, Survival, and the Fight for Texas Independence
 
From the author of the French Letters trilogy comes a sweeping historical adventure full of unforgettable Texas legends!
 
Six years after the fall of the Alamo, Mexican armies invade freely across the Rio Grande, and Texas is but one skirmish away from losing its hard-won independence. 
 
Against this backdrop, naïve surveyor Alexandre LaBranche accepts a dubious commission to map the Rio Grande boundary between Texas and Mexico but soon finds himself far out of his depth. 
 
Laced with exuberant, Texas-sized historical figures such as Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Jack Hays, Dangerous Latitudes is a quest across a war-torn frontier that becomes a race to save two hundred captured Texans who the Mexican army has marked for death.