Finding Billy Battles by Ronald E. Yates Review

The first in a trilogy of novels about a man’s 100 year life of peril, adventure, tragedy, transgression and redemption.
When a great-grandson inherits two aging trunks and a stack of meticulously detailed journals penned by his great-grandfather, he sets out to fulfill his great-grandfather’s last request: to tell the story of an incredible life replete with adventure, violence, and tragedy. The great-grandfather’s name is Billy Battles–a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control.

For much of his 100-year-long life Billy is a man missing and largely unknown to his descendants. His great-grandson is about to change that. As he works his way through the aging journals and the other possessions he finds in the battered trunks he uncovers the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather–a man whose deeds and misdeeds propelled him on an extraordinary and perilous journey from the untamed American West to the inscrutable Far East, Latin America and Europe.
As he flips through the pages of the handwritten journals he learns of Billy’s surprising connections to the Spanish-American War, French Indochina, and revolutions in Mexico and other Latin American countries. But most of all he learns that in finding Billy Battles he has also found a long lost and astonishing link to the past.

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My Review:

This is the story of a man who found the journals of one of his ancestors. I always thought that it would be exciting to travel back in time and meet my family. How they lived and where our family traditions came from. I really liked the idea of the info being written down for all future generations to read. Billy definitely led an amazing life and met many people. He lived through happiness, tragedy and some very important times in history! I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review via The Book Review Buzz, however all opinions are my own.