Gary's Miss-Adventures

About the Book

Progeny of famous 16th century European general joins Marines on father’s dying wish.  Due to strict upbringing, still a virgin at age 22 when WWII begins.  

While in basic training gets beaten up badly by two men & hospitalized.  

Falls in love with his dream girl who is an enigma with dual personalities, one named Polly and the other named Molly.  A romance destined to fail.

Helps 4 nurses & another patient from burning hospital to underground shelter during severe storm. Building collapses burying them with no apparent way out.  Nearly gives in to one nurse's enticements.  Discovers a hidden room full of stolen goods while trying to find an exit.   Falls in love with a second nurse in a romance also doomed to fail.

After recovery in hospital, goes on home on leave prior to going overseas.  Gets robbed on train ride home, avoids a few more sexual encounters.  

Reports back to base before leaving for combat.  Nearly has affair with colonel’s daughter until tragedy strikes.  Helps to solve mystery of stolen goods room but risks life saving ten men from crime based execution.  

Goes overseas and into three major battle campaigns.  Wounded badly, comes home three years later, but still a virgin.  Falls in love again.  Will this romantic encounter end as all the others have or will he finally become a whole man?

About the Author

Jerry McConnell is a long-time resident of the planet earth. He has been on or very nearly on four of the world's seven continents. He has been to seventeen of the world's countries. McConnell has participated in one major military wartime combat operation and has lived through several other major and minor wars, incidents, rebellions, and campaigns. This background has provided him with lots of material to be condensed into stories and he wants to share one of these in this book titled Gary's Miss-Adventures. It is a mostly fictional story of a young man who came of age during World War II, but didn't become a whole man until he was twenty-five years old. Some of the incidents in the book are loosely based on the lives of persons with whom he had intimate personal knowledge as he grew into manhood. But, as stated above, it is mostly fictional.