Plucked Again!

About the Book

Hurriedly preparing his broiler-chicken houses for impending delivery of chicks, "Flanker" Fitzroy is accidentally knocked unconscious. Coming to, disoriented, he discovers he has no memory of whom, or where, he is. A strange, oversized, English-speaking chicken he nicknames MAC takes over, convincing Flanker that he needs his clairvoyance and magical powers to forestall ruin. It seems Flanker has mortgaged his future for semi-obsolete chicken houses and a rundown manor house on a saltwater farm. MAC will guide him and provide the labor.

Except for Flanker's lovely and loving wife Miss Lil, prospects are bleak. Yet, bonds of friendship between man and chicken mentor grow as they stave off the mortgage-holder, defeat oyster pirates in a nighttime battle and counter-terrorize the errant cropduster who buzzes the chicken houses, while quieting the evil bankers who want Flanker's hide.

Meanwhile, Flanker has a brief tryst with gorgeous Wanda, parties at a nude beach, and is trapped in a riot. Later, he saves his fellow hostages in a robbery, but is severely injured. Recuperating, his past is revealed and his wife's deep love proved, as they triumph over all disaster.

About the Author

William Rouse was born 1924 and reared in Newport News, Virginia. In WWII, he served on the hospital ship USS Rescue. After the war, Rouse had a playwriting scholarship at Washington & Lee University and was a drummer in dance band. Later, he was a homebuilder, an administrator for U. S. Public Health Service, and the father of four daughters. Now retired, Rouse writes and briefly raised broiler chickens on the Eastern Shore.