The Westward Journey of the Nebraskan Wind

About the Book

This is a story about Jack Timmons and his desire to always do the right thing. Jack grew up on a farm in Nebraska and was mesmerized as a child, by the movie "The Wizard of Oz." He knew it was just a movie but the message he received from it would be profound in his thinking throughout his life and that is that, "there is no place like home." Jack lived the old movies of films heyday and he thought of specific scenes in some of them to help him through some of the perils of his life. The messages that they portrayed were so much different than modern-day movies and he often feels that he is living in the wrong generation. The farm was his stage and reaping of the crops were his Academy Award’s. A trip to Hollywood to find out why these old movies had such an effect on him would soon send him into heroics, pain, and government cover-ups and find the love of his life that will put all the pieces back together

About the Author

Gary D. Henry spent over twenty years in the environmental field and another fifteen years as a Government contractor. That is where he found the desire to write. As a technical writer for many of these years, he has written countless reports regarding testing procedures and testing results presented to Government agencies. Recently, he has had the desire to write stories. This came from a short story written about Alzheimer’s disease, which claimed the life of his father, Ray Henry in early 2009. The short story was given to Leeza Gibbons at her request for her to use with a visual piece that she was planning. His first six novels being “The Westward Journey of the Nebraskan Wind,” “The Castle Dark of Upstate,” “A life Measured by the Minute” “Opulence Among Us” “The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier”, “The Books of James C. Patch: Returning” are presently published and available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and many other online outlets. His eighth novel “Abraham Markem and the Amazing White Dog” and “Legacy of the Unsung” is presently in the publication phase and will be available soon. He is presently writing his ninth novel, the third in the Jim Patch series, to be completed in early August 2010.