Stayin' Even 2: Good To Go

About the Book

This is the last novel of an apocalyptic trilogy and a sequel to the second book.

It is the story, told in his own words, of a middle-aged African American who attempts to survive in a world, and particularly in a United States, almost destroyed by warfare, plague, famine and natural disasters.

He has escaped most of the death and destruction by wit and the good fortune of being in the safety of the Northwest. But now his sanctuary is threatened by an invasion of peasants aided by the Mexican army coming north from Central America.

What is left of the US army is fighting a delaying action and slowly retreating northward. Plans are for the Canadian army to advance partway into the US, combine with the Americans and push the invaders south back into Mexico.

The Canadians have also promised to provide aid to American civilians fleeing the invasion across their border.

Our hero, faced with little other choice, decides belatedly to also enter Canada as a refugee.

But there he finds that he can only return to his home with difficulty.

This is his story as he attempts to walk home to Oregon, across a lawless, dangerous country, depending only on the street smarts he brought from his original big city and the forest lore he learned from an old Native American he befriended in the woods of his adopted state.

About the Author

George B. Lee is a pharmacist living in a Philadelphia suburb who wrote fiction as a hobby until his retirement. Since then he has published a two volume novel and a book of short stories along with this and two other adventure novels of men struggling to survive in the aftermath of country-wide destruction.