The Adventures of Benny and Jeff

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The sun bounced from the skids--mosquito legs of steel-as the choppers hovered then slowly sank to the earth. A swarm of blades chopped the air in deafening whacks as great clouds of dust and dirt launched from the downwash. "They had arrived-their taxis home. Those great green wasps, wet with venom, the dragonflies from heaven-their ambulance and their hearse-their lifeline and their deathbed-all rolled into one." ". . . and he began to remember other times and other places, when the earth was cool and the nights were quiet. He felt himself being swallowed by the memories and drifted off to . . . ". . . that morning when he walked his cousin Nellie to Hangman's Creek. He remembered lying on his back with his arms crooked behind his head studying her bare bottom and polka dot dress. She straddled the knot on the end of the giant rope and swung out over the babbling water. Man that was a long time ago, Jeffery thought. It almost didn't seem real anymore." A MODERN DAY CULT CLASSIC From the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest to the jungles of Southeast Asia, The Adventures of Benny and Jeff follows the lives of two boys, half-brothers, who come of age through changing times, family strife and self-discovery. Jeffery Nole is abducted at Christmas time when he was four and carted off to live with his father. More than five years passes before he sees his mother again. During that time, without his knowledge, his mother remarries and gives birth to another boy, Benny Olstein. As we follow their journey through boyhood we meet Nellie Fairfax and other members of their families who take us from the turn of the century to the killing fields of war. With pageantry rich in humor and characters we learn of forbidden love, God, and the secrets that bind or tear their families apart.