For What He Could Become

NOVEL SYNOPYSIS: ?The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.' Charles du BoisLive with Bill Williams, half Irish, half Athabaskan Indian who never heard this quote but follows its teachings as he leaves his native village after a disastrous bear hunt, works on a Yukon Riverboat, searches for gold, helps build the AlCan Highway and goes to war in 1942. Surviving the Battle of the Bulge, he returns to find the village sterile, his girlfriend married to his brother, and the lifestyle not conducive to one who has fought a war through Belgium and Germany. He moves to Anchorage where, after a series of mishaps, he becomes a derelict, suffers alcoholism, unemployment, and homelessness. The untimely death of his dominating brother causes the widow, a woman he has waited for all his life, to give him a second big chance at love, life, and happiness, and shoves him into the Last Great Race on Earth...the 1000-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race.Misko, James A. is the author of 'For What He Could Become', published 2006 under ISBN 9780964082618 and ISBN 0964082616.