TrunkWax II

About the Book

Broke, with a bad knee, and no place to pasture a few cows, Bill Robeiro joins two struggling friends, Jim Delahunt and Hrubel Kwasnik, in a scheme to develop, produce, and sell TrunkWax, a tree-trunk paint that imparts wondrous properties to fruit trees and might put some needed dollars in their pockets besides being a boon to natural and organic orchardists. Bill travels to France to locate a source of microbe-rich, bovine manure, a key ingredient in their TrunkWax recipe. Along the way, he thwarts a hotel burglary in Clermont-Ferrand, collects a reward, plays professional rugby in the Cantal, cowboys in the Camargue, and rescues a kidnapped Welsh cattleman from Canadian separatists.

About the Author

Howard Lentzner’s first two books, NuFoam: The Bubble’s Might and Trunk Wax: Delahunt at Large attempted to blend adventure, science, technology, and travel into stories that were built around the humor and vagaries of serious human endeavor. In his third book, the second installment of the TrunkWax Trilogy, he chronicles the adventures of Bill Robeiro, one of the three California amigos, in his attempt to procure a source of biologically rich, French manure. The author draws on his 30 years of experience with the Salers breed of French cattle, his marketing of grass-fed beef at Farmer’s markets, and support of the Slow Food Movement. Prior to being a rancher, he was a research scientist, science writer and editor, and librarian. After his undergraduate work at Whittier College, he did postgraduate work at Strathclyde University in Scotland and at the Ecole Superieure de Chimie in Mulhouse, France. He currently resides with his wife of fifty years on what’s left of the family ranch in Brentwood, California, where he runs herd on chickens and cats.