Free Ride

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Free Ride by Mark Leysen

It’s 1965, the Vietnam War is raging, and Southern California artist and surfer Garret Spencer has been drafted. Saved from the jungles of southeast Asia after basic training, Garret has been assigned as a driver at the Pentagon. Despite having to wear a uniform eight hours a day, Spencer is more interested in making love (and art) instead of war. Will Spencer find true love? Will he have a chance to show his art? Will he survive the army?

This fast-paced book with sparkling dialog is a perfect summer read! Never dripping in typical 60s nostalgia, this story puts you smack in the middle of the decade as it was really lived – based on Mark’s own experience at the Pentagon in the 60s.

 

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“Mark Leysen has hit an historic, cultural and creative home run with FREE RIDE. His novel is a great romp through the 1960s, its characters memorable, the scenes fetching, the writing a piece of art in itself by this renowned artist and gifted novelist. Best of all, he brings the narrative and dialogue to us raw and unvarnished, thankfully without the revisionist, gentrified approach many authors and their publishers take in setting books in the ‘60s. The difference? He lived through it all — and honored a golden rule of all artists: let the viewers/readers interpret for themselves. A beautiful, wild, poignant work, worthy of the success sure to come its way.”

– Robert Yehling • WriteAway Books
Award Winning Author, Voices & Just Add Water
Co-Author, When We Were The Boys

FREE RIDE is Mark Leysen’s sixth novel.
His previous novel, THE REP: Max Passberger, garnered an Honorable
Mention in Fiction at the 2024 Los Angeles Book Fair.
He writes and paints in Irvine, California.

Photo by Nora Novak.

 

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