Up a Tree

"Brock's prose is a perfect blend of Mark Twain-style color undercut by modern humor. Ruby and Quinn are a Tom and Huck for the 21st century. True brilliance . . . in the finest American tradition." -Kirkus Reviews

Sometimes you have to voyage to the ends of the earth to find your way home...

The trouble begins for young Ruby and his best friend, Quinn, after an accident in the forest outside their rural Adirondack hometown. Their attempt to cover-up their mistake ignites a local skirmish with one of the most influential families in America and leads to Ruby's death-or so everyone thinks. Plenty alive and sensing an adventure, Ruby disappears and soon weaves his way across the country in a series of narrow escapes from danger. Journeying from the Adirondacks, through New York City, and into the heart of the American West, Ruby and Quinn discover the importance of true friendship, the meaning of family, and the immensity of the world beyond their backyards.

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Up a Tree

"Brock's prose is a perfect blend of Mark Twain-style color undercut by modern humor. Ruby and Quinn are a Tom and Huck for the 21st century. True brilliance . . . in the finest American tradition." -Kirkus Reviews

Sometimes you have to voyage to the ends of the earth to find your way home...

The trouble begins for young Ruby and his best friend, Quinn, after an accident in the forest outside their rural Adirondack hometown. Their attempt to cover-up their mistake ignites a local skirmish with one of the most influential families in America and leads to Ruby's death-or so everyone thinks. Plenty alive and sensing an adventure, Ruby disappears and soon weaves his way across the country in a series of narrow escapes from danger. Journeying from the Adirondacks, through New York City, and into the heart of the American West, Ruby and Quinn discover the importance of true friendship, the meaning of family, and the immensity of the world beyond their backyards.

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Up a Tree

Up a Tree

by Richard M Brock
Up a Tree

Up a Tree

by Richard M Brock

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"Brock's prose is a perfect blend of Mark Twain-style color undercut by modern humor. Ruby and Quinn are a Tom and Huck for the 21st century. True brilliance . . . in the finest American tradition." -Kirkus Reviews

Sometimes you have to voyage to the ends of the earth to find your way home...

The trouble begins for young Ruby and his best friend, Quinn, after an accident in the forest outside their rural Adirondack hometown. Their attempt to cover-up their mistake ignites a local skirmish with one of the most influential families in America and leads to Ruby's death-or so everyone thinks. Plenty alive and sensing an adventure, Ruby disappears and soon weaves his way across the country in a series of narrow escapes from danger. Journeying from the Adirondacks, through New York City, and into the heart of the American West, Ruby and Quinn discover the importance of true friendship, the meaning of family, and the immensity of the world beyond their backyards.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780991132041
Publisher: Bogie Road Publishing
Publication date: 02/02/2021
Pages: 330
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Richard M. Brock is the independent author of Cross Dog Blues (2015) and Up a Tree (2021). An Amazon Kindle national and international best seller, he maintains a 4.5-star average reader review and over 18,000 Facebook followers. "This is storytelling at its best," says Fortean Times Magazine. And from Kirkus Reviews: "Brock's prose is a perfect blend of Mark Twain-style color undercut by modern humor. True brilliance . . . in the finest American tradition." Originally from the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, he and his wife now live in Colorado.

Table of Contents

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

2 Momma Deerest

3 Timber Value

4 Widow Jones's

5 Ends Means Freedom

6 Trap Door

7 Snake in the Water

8 Water Bomb

9 City Hound

10 A Bronx Trail

11 Witch Way

12 Scorpion Bots

13 Geno and Gilbert

14 Abandon All Hoboken

15 Guts on a Grainer

16 The Battle of Bulls Running

17 Guy Lines

18 The Pitfalls of Being Dead

19 FUBAR

20 Without a Lick of Adventure

21 Pistols

22 Cross Roads

23 Knocked Cold

24 Dragging West

25 Missus Tarzan

26 Outlaws on the Loose

27 Slip

28 In It

29 Atonement

30 Garden of the Dead

31 Communication

32 Escape

33 For Whoever Gets His Bell Rung

34 Like a Hammer

35 Monsters

36 Pirates and Cannibals

37 Daaaaaaa-lirium

38 Tough Old Bar of Soap

39 Good Deeds and Punishment

40 Gophers

41 Hunger Strikes Dirt

42 Roots

43 Silence

44 Official Greenhorns

45 Fate of the Hateful

46 Stow The Way

47 Big Talk

48 Half a Hondo

49 Whirling Dervishes

50 The Meating We Saw

51 Ocean Dwelling

52 Snatch That Demon

53 The Top

54 An Ocean of Waves

55 A Little More

56 The Last

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