Author May Be Next L'Amour

Online, November 29, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Las Vegas author William Post may be channeling Louis L'Amour.

Like L'Amour, Post writes rather short, easy-to-read novels that tell complete stories within themselves, but follow characters during various stages of their lives. When taken together, as with "The Miracle," "A Call to Duty" and now the first in the trilogy, "The Mystery of Table Mountain," the novels create a saga that ranges the globe.

That saga is reminiscent of the author's own life. At 15, Post left home alone for New York City and caught an oil tanker to Aruba in the southern Caribbean Sea. He has been in gold mines, and has dredged and sniped for gold in the scenic Yuba and Merced rivers in California. He's traveled every interstate highway across America and visited most of the country's national parks.

"I've always had a wanderlust," says Post, now in his early 70s.

After three-and-a-half years at Texas A&M, he joined the U.S. Navy just prior to being drafted. When he got out, he obtained his civil engineering license and became a surveyor with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

"It took me to the wilds of New Mexico, Arizona and California, where The Mystery of Table Mountain is based," Post says. "When I retired, I moved the family to northern California near Nevada City, the heart of gold country."

With publication of Table Mountain, Post lets fans meet James "Easy" Raymond long before he's kidnapped to the Greek isles or is tapped by President Woodrow Wilson in the Great War, exploits from the other two novels.

Like L'Amour's stories, this one is a fictional tale of Western romance and danger. A young Raymond is forced to leave college when his father is murdered. Returning to Virginia for the funeral, he learns that his twin sisters have drowned in an unlikely wagon accident - and finds himself suddenly framed by his Uncle Regus for a crime he didn't commit. James flees under an assumed name, and his adventures begin.

Readers will learn the story behind Raymond's relationships with:

• Billy Two Shirts - a young man with a passion to be educated. He and James will become lifelong friends.
• Ellen - a mother of two in an arduous wagon train headed east, who leans on James when tragedy strikes.
• Rachel - a woman married but alone, who finds solace in the secret Rachel's Garden at the foot of the mountain.
• Rosa - a captive of Native Americans for three years before James hoists her up the mountain and out of sight.
• Table Mountain - a natural mesa soaring 400 feet straight up with almost no access to the top: the perfect hideout.

Post has published five books and will publish two more Westerns by the end of 2010. Learn more at www.novelsbywilliampost.com.

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