It is 1914 and Billy is living peacefully in Chicago with his wife, Katharina when that tranquility is disrupted by a telephone call from a powerful old friend that yanks Billy back into a life of havoc and peril in Mexico.
As The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles opens, it is 1894 and Billy is aboard the S S China sailing to French Indochina where more trouble awaits him.
The amazing award-winning story of a mysterious man who lives an improbable 100-year-long life of adventure, peril, transgression, and redemption between 1860 and 1960 .