When All-American Cowboy and malcontent, “Sonny Buff ” Clarendon, from tiny Warwhoop, Oklahoma, inherits a title of European nobility, he sets off to Germany looking for a Castle on the Rhine and a live-in Rhinemaiden. But what the cowboy finds is a once elegant but abandoned old manse in the middle of nowhere, a lively Teutonic super blonde with emotional meltdown tendencies, and a bunch of neighbors with a well-greased stash of old war weapons, including tanks, who are intent on world domination.
What’s the result? Cultures clash, maidens sigh, bullets fly, as Sonny Buff not only shoots holes in the myth of the American cowboy, but strives to save the world as well.
About the Author
John Strider Nation grew up in the cowboy country of the Red River Valley of southern Oklahoma, watching the cow ponies and windmills of the Old West turn into the pickup trucks and oil derricks of the New West. A natural nomad, Nation has traveled extensively, living for twenty years on a classic 40-foot wooden schooner that he built, and backpacking across Europe and North Africa.
He is the eldest son of award-winning poet, Winona Morris Nation, who almost forgotten now, in the 1950s won many national poetry awards, being published in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and in 1959, winning the National Collegiate Poetry Contest. Nation holds a degree in anthropology and English from the University of Oklahoma, and is a licensed pilot.
